Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Reserve Board and the central banks of Germany, Switzerland and Japan did in fact buy up enough dollars to hold the price well above the lows established in the pre-Halloween panic. But it was clear that the dollar has not yet developed any upward momentum of its own, and will not until Carter can convince the hard-bitten cynics of the exchange markets that the U.S. is prepared to follow a tough anti-inflation policy as long as may be necessary. Said Walter Seipp, vice president of the Westdeutsche Landesbank in Düsseldorf: "Everything depends on whether...
...afternoon, Swiss time. Conservative Columnist William Buckley knows just what he will be doing: starting his third novel. The author of Saving the Queen and Stained Glass is going to Rougemont, Switzerland, and has set aside five weeks to churn out another thriller. Après-ski and pre-harpsichord practice, Buckley, 52, plans to produce 1,500 words a day. Why the regimen? "The 20th century notion that you should stare at the ceiling until the afflatus [inspiration] hits you is self-indulgent," harrumphs Buckley, who does admit to slight concern about having no plot...
While shareholder resolutions have challenged American infant formula companies, such as Bristol-Myers and Abbott, Nestle, which is the world's largest producer of formula, is an international corporation based in Switzerland and does not sell stock in America...
...also reflected the wish of Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened the first International Peace Congress in Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner...
...which is fine with the author, who shuttles between Switzerland and New York. At 65, he cherishes few illusions. "I am," he says simply, "a product of my times." Shaw spent five decades writing big movies and novels (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and unprofitable short fiction, because "in a novel or a play you must be a whole man. In a collection of stories you can be all the men or fragments of men, worthy and unworthy, who in different seasons abound in you. It is a luxury not to be scorned...