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Suddenly, though, Rossignol's reputation has taken a spill. French skiers, ! two-thirds of whom use skis supplied by Rossignol or its Dynastar subsidiary, have had a dismal season. It culminated earlier this month with their total failure at the world championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. While Swiss skiers claimed eight gold medals and even tiny Luxembourg carried off a gold, not one of the 30 prizes at stake was won by a French skier. The dejected French competitors blamed the bad showing on their skis and on poor preparation by the team's technical support staff, most of whom...
King and Kitchener's work departs from widely accepted theories like those of the celebrated Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. He also described levels of readiness for certain kinds of reasoning, concluding that logical thought begins by age 7 and by 12 escalates to the ability to deal with abstractions like the future. "His emphasis was on logical reasoning," says King. "We are looking at a different domain of problem solving." In that domain, adds Kitchener, "logic alone is not enough for mature judgments...
...Toward the end of a five-day visit, he was suddenly arrested and accused of being "a spy for the Zionist regime." For several days it appeared that he would be brought to trial on espionage charges. But late in the week he was turned over to the Swiss embassy, which represents American interests in Iran, and put aboard a Swissair jetliner bound for Zurich. On arrival, Seib read a statement in which he thanked the Swiss for helping to secure his release. In response to the spying charges, he declared, "I am a journalist, and that is all that...
...like many well-known experts, Erdman continues to prosper by being wrong. His writing career was in fact launched by an international banking blunder. That was in 1970, when he was vice chairman of the United California Bank in Basel, where officials participated in some ruinous commodity trades. The Swiss government concluded that he had transgressed the country's financial code and threw him in jail for ten months...
...Federal Reserve Board and a distinguished authority on international finance. But then, much needs to be explained if the reader is to share in the panic. Why are two unappealing Venezuelan brothers plotting to wreck the U.S. economy? What fearsome weapon does the Third World wield? How much do Swiss banks and European money houses have to gain at America's expense...