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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prices are indeed high. In the shopping meccas of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Munich's Maximilianstrasse or Brussels' Avenue Louise, a Pierre Cardin tie costs $40, a Réty suit $440 and a Balenciaga handbag $370. Even the cost of window-shopping is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How They Live So Well in Europe | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Though part of the rise in European pay (and prices) when expressed in dollars reflects the slump in the value of the greenback, this does not explain all the difference. In real terms, incomes have simply risen much faster in Europe than in America. According to the Paris-based Organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How They Live So Well in Europe | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

"Wherever you put your foot in the mud that is now Morvi, you strike a body." So said Pankaj Zaveri, a survivor of the most disastrous accident ever to befall India. In the midafternoon of a torrentially rainy Saturday, the 197-ft.-high earthen Machhu dam in western India'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Death in India's Paris | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The seven-year-old Machhu dam had been designed to cope with an average annual rainfall of 22 in. The storm that precipitated the collapse dumped 28 in. of rain on the region in less than 24 hours. Water was already lapping over the top of the dam when engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Death in India's Paris | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

That will not happen any time soon, and the Chicago crash is shaping up as the most expensive aviation liability case to date. The record for damages is now held by the crash in 1974 of a Turkish Air lines DC-10 near Paris, which has so far cost its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The DC-10 Crash Sweepstakes | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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