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PARTIAL EXHILARATION, partial disappointment: one reader's response to this latest collection of essays by Roland Barthes. Intellectual morsels, released posthumously for our literary delectation--they can only be read in the light of all that has gone before, all that has been said and done, Barthes' own deja-dit, deja-vecu...
...referendum grew out of a scandal seven years ago involving foreign deposits. An officer at a Crédit Suisse branch in Chiasso, near the Italian border, was convicted of illegally diverting more than $800 million in customer funds into speculative investments. Most of the money had come from Italians seeking a haven from inflation and high tax rates...
Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president of Crédit Suisse, feared that persistently high interest rates could even abort the incipient European recovery. Warned Mast, who attributed the high rates, at least in part, to lingering worries about a resurgence of inflation in the U.S. and to the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy: "The prospects as seen from Switzerland are very chilling indeed. The three major short-term economic problems of our time have not been resolved." The first, in Mast's view, is unemployment, which "could rise to socially...
Jeantot, in his black-and-yellow aluminum-hulled cutter prosaically named Crédit Agricole for the bank that sponsored it, beat by an astonishing 28½ days the previous record for a single-hulled boat, set last year by Australian Neville Gosson. This time Gosson was expected to finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon...
...Mexico to Poland. And though unemployment is currently at 10.5% of the labor force in Western Europe as a whole, and rising, the specter of inflation is receding. By next December, according to Board Member Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president for Crédit Suisse, inflation should have been driven down from a current level of 8.5% to an annual rate of no more than about 7.5%, the lowest in more than a decade...