Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reans drop their Christian names for African ones, address one another as "citizen" and "citizeness," and wear a form of national dress-batik sarongs for women, tunic suits for men. Absolute wealth has tended to follow absolute power; Mobutu-whose personal interests include property in Spain and Switzerland -has been widely described as one of the wealthiest...
...died of bronchitis in Basel last month at the age of 85, Mark Tobey had long been the favorite American painter of those who, in general, disliked American art. For them, Tobey was the quintessential expatriate: an old man of august refinement and blunt disposition who had settled in Switzerland 15 years before and proved his vision by amplifying it far from his roots on the Seattle coast...
Their own engineers did not let the watchmakers down. The first quartz-based wristwatch was produced in Neuchatel in 1967, and Switzerland's chemical industry led in developing the liquid crystal displays used in many digital watches. But U.S. manufacturers got a technological lead, using miniaturization techniques largely developed for the space program, and began mass production that sent prices tumbling. Texas Instruments recently announced that it will market a digital watch for $20. Swiss watchmakers had held back, believing digital timepieces would be only...
...There were people in Switzerland who thought one could never do away with the hands on a watch," admits Georges-Adrien Matthey, director general of Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère S.A. (S.S.I.H.), which makes Omega and Tissot watches. Result: of the more than 4 million digital watches produced in the world last year, fewer than 500,000 were made in Switzerland...
...social problems that have resulted from the watch industry's decline. To a large extent, watchmaking has remained a cottage industry, with production divided among more than 1,000 firms scattered throughout the foothills of the French-speaking Jura region. Unemployment among the workers has inevitably affected Switzerland's normally strike-free labor relations. In January, 189 workers at a U.S.-owned Bulova plant in Neuchátel went on strike to oppose plans for consolidating production in Bienne, 20 miles down the road...