Word: soci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine-nation European Community. This year real gross national product is expected to rise about 2% in Switzerland, v. 6% or more in the U.S., West Germany and France. Bankruptcies have increased, and some of the country's largest companies, including Alusuisse (aluminum) and Société Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogère (watches), ended last year...
...There were people in Switzerland who thought one could never do away with the hands on a watch," admits Georges-Adrien Matthey, director general of Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère S.A. (S.S.I.H.), which makes Omega and Tissot watches. Result: of the more than 4 million digital watches produced in the world last year, fewer than 500,000 were made in Switzerland...
...most sought-after experts aboard was Dr. Georges M. Halpern, vice president of France's Société de Gastronomie Médicale, who was perhaps the slimmest man aboard. One of his secrets, he confided, is to eat and make love with equal ardor; although figures differ, Halpern averred that sex on the average consumes 100 calories per minute. On disembarking with his Japanese wife, le docteur observed happily that in the course of the cruise he had shed one pound...
Without publicizing the fact, the grandly misnamed Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers á Monaco (S.B.M.),* the company that runs the casino and most of the other tourist haunts in the tiny principality of Monaco, has removed the ceiling for some of the casino's best-heeled aficionados...
...Banque Franco-Arabe d'lnvestissements Internationaux (or FRAB), started in Paris in 1969 by the Kuwait Investment Co. in partnership with the French Société Générale and the Société de Banque Suisse. It has $180 million in assets, and its vice president is Abdel Aziz El Sagar, former speaker of Kuwait's Parliament...