Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress eleven months). He should also let it be known that he is seriously considering supplemental measures - slapping a stiff tariff on imported oil, for example, if consumption does not come down. The damage done by dawdling on energy can hardly be overstated. Asks Chief Economist Hans Mast, of Switzerland's Credit Suisse Bank: " What are we to think of a President with a parliamentary majority who cannot get his energy program through Congress...
...still some Frenchmen who were ready to resort to the traditional Gallic suitcase defense against the possibility of abrupt political change. Headlines bannered the news last week when French customs officials nabbed Lucien Barrière, president of the gambling casinos in Cannes and Deauville, as he traveled to Switzerland by train with $634,000 in diamonds and other gems in his luggage. The baubles, Barrière explained, were just something for his wife to wear on a skiing holiday in Gstaad...
...dollar's worst performance came in West Germany, where it dropped nearly 4.4 pfennigs in one day, crashing below the psychologically important two-mark barrier before rallying slightly to close the week at 2.02. In Switzerland, the dollar rocketed between extremes of 1.88 and 1.75 Swiss francs within two trading days. The dollar even managed a distinction of sorts by hitting a 17-month low against the Italian lira, one of the world's weakest currencies...
Probably 3,000 bypasses have been performed so far, most of them in Switzerland, where the operation originated, and in the U.S., Canada and Germany. Still, doctors point out that these patients have not yet been studied long enough to determine for sure whether the surgery is superior to other treatment or even to none at all. These very questions will now be examined in detail by an international team of neuroscientists led by Dr. H.J.M. Barnett of University Hospital, London, Ont., and financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The team expects to study 1,000 stroke-prone...
...million pairs marketed last year. Before Rossignol's ascendancy, Japan held one-quarter of the market and threatened to smother European competitors; now Rossignol sells one-fifth of the skis in Japan, whose export business has plunged but shows some signs of recovery. Rossignol has plants in Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany and Williston, Vt. Sales last year approached $100 million, up from $57 million...