Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans, nondriving Sundays are still a novelty; for many Europeans, they already are part of the regular round of life. Over the past month or so, six European countries-Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy and just this week, Denmark -have flatly forbidden all Sunday driving, except for cars owned by diplomats, doctors, taximen and a very few others...
Foreign investors generated a large share of this growth, from which they have reaped enormous profits. By the end of 1969, 80 per cent of total foreign investment in Brazil originated in five countries--the United States (with 48 per cent), Canada, West Germany, the U.K., and Switzerland...
Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a blackboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts. These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced. No one would deny that such characters are abundantly present in life, but to see the entire pattern of human behavior in these terms is one-eyed vision. As propounded in The Visit, currently being revived...
...Maybe you are talking to the wrong person, but as a foreign student I will be happy to go back to Switzerland for three weeks," said Paul E. Abecassis
...patients round the world have shooed the blues or relieved tension by swallowing Librium and Valium, the tranquilizers that are among the biggest-selling prescription drugs ever marketed. Every little capsule adds to the billions of dollars in sales and untold millions in profits reaped by their discoverer: Switzerland's secretive F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., which may well be the world's largest seller of drugs (estimated volume: $1.6 billion per year). That phenomenal success has now embroiled Roche in a worldwide dispute that has driven its British prices for the two drugs down...