Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world break-dance championship sponsored by Swatch, the Swiss watch brand, took place last week in Manhattan. The purse totaled $25,000, including $3,500 prizes for the top soloists. Best foreign team was the West Germans, who outspun the British and French crews...
Firmenich, a Swiss based company that funded the Rutger's University study, apparently hopes to use the information to produce flavorful fries that contain less...
...QUICKLY becomes clear that McPhee's admiration for the Swiss system is not limited to their ability to repel an attack. He is equally impressed by the role the Swiss citizen army has played in shaping one of the world's more tranquil societies. He writes that "Switzerland does not have an army. Switzerland is an Army." The Swiss seem to have maintained the idea, out of fashion elsewhere in the developed world, that an army can do more for a nation than just protect it. Instead, the Swiss see their army as a reversed social institution, bringing together citizens...
...hard to read La Place de la Concorde Suisse without feeling admiration for the Swiss and their army. It is tempting as well to draw comparisons between the Swiss system and our own. Clearly there are great differences between the two nations. But the idea of a citizen army is nonetheless an attractive one which does not, perhaps, receive the attention it should...
...Place de la Concorde Suisse, McPhee describes maneuvers on the outskirts of a small alpine town. While the bullets whizz by above, the townspeople go about their business, not concerned with the activity above. It is hard to imagine a similar scene in the United States. Unlike the Swiss, Americans seem uncomfortable with the idea of the varied role the army can play within a nation's own borders. McPhee suggests that Americans have a lot to learn...