Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support their price. When news leaked out two weeks ago that U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had met secretly in Paris with European monetary officials, currency traders assumed that a dollar-propping agreement would be announced at last week's monthly meeting of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland. None was forth coming, and the selloff of dollars started anew. By midweek the herd instinct had taken hold, and in Switzerland the dollar lost 1.5% in value in a single day, one of its largest one-day drops. That will make Swiss vacations more expensive for American tourists...
...interpretations by Horowitz and, of course, the composer himself. The final album, Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), ought to stand by itself for years. It is a wondrously assorted anthology of piano pieces, many of which were conceived during four years of wandering through Switzerland and Italy. From the revolutionary "trumpet calls" of the opening Chapelle de Guillaume Tell to the exquisite mysteries of the Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, Berman revels in some of the most poetic landscapes known to the piano...
...revolution found him on the side of the Paris Commune, which called for the demolition of that symbol of "false glory," the Vendome Column. Later, the Commune crushed, a vengeful state passed a law to make Courbet bear the cost of restoring the column. Bankrupt, he fled to Switzerland and died in exile in 1877. There is always room for argument over the extent of Courbet's realism. The man who insisted on setting down the bald truth of visual experience, from a drunken priest's red nose to the drool on a stag's jaws...
Wiederkehr was named for Johann Wiederkehr, who settled in Altus, Ark., in the 1880s because the Ozark Mountain country reminded him of his native Switzerland. Johann planted native Concords and Delawares, but in 1958 his grandson Alcuin, now 43, began experimenting with vinifera and last year sold 10,000 gal. of such wines as Cabernet Sauvignon and Gewurztraminer, some of them in his own Alpine-style restaurant...
...steel industry alone has filed 14 complaints of alleged dumping?that is, selling below cost?against foreign competitors in the U.S. In all, $1.4 billion worth of imported steel is involved. Additional cases are likely to cover microwave ovens, Citizens Band radios, motorcycles and perhaps even granola from Switzerland. This counterattack is being launched with the explicit encouragement of President Carter, who seems to see an antidumping crusade as a way to protect U.S. jobs against cheap imports without violating principles of free trade. In mid-October the President promised to act vigorously on any dumping complaints that the steel...