Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general rule, the more developed a country is, the more efficient are its methods of collecting taxes. Artful citizens of such nations frequently look for tax havens abroad. West German actors, for instance, often incorporate themselves in Switzerland, where the top tax rate is 35%, v. 53% at home (a loophole that the German government is trying to close by court action and a new tax treaty signed last year...
From time to time Duffy escapes from her book-strewn office to interview an author. She visited Vladimir Nabokov in Switzerland ("warm but very formal-we met at meals"); Saul Bellow in Chicago ("difficult, a very private man who doesn't like to talk about himself"); Mary McCarthy in Paris ("vibrant and intuitive, she doesn't come on as a bluestocking"). Duffy finds that "most serious writers are self-conscious and reticent. They aren't used to being interviewed, and they're wary." Authors of lesser stature are more talkative. Erich Segal (Love Story) met Duffy...
...must be launched, ranging from clothing and pharmaceuticals to steel tubing and petrochemicals. To the delight of European suppliers, Libya has ordered $180 million worth of cement, shoe and glass factories from West Germany, a $50 million power plant from France, and other major equipment from Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Gaddafi is unimpressed by evidence that the highly automated plants will provide fewer than 5,000 new jobs-the most exacting of which will undoubtedly have to be filled by the army of technicians he has imported from Egypt-and that many of the made-in-Libya products will cost...
...staff of 55 workers. The first trial watches lost a minute and a half each day. Today the factory employs 3,600 people who turn out 2.4 million watches a year, which lose, I was told, less than 30 seconds a day. Although some lathes are imported from Switzerland, most of the delicate watchmaking tools are now made in China...
Alarmed by the scandals that have rocked I.O.S., Switzerland has tightened its securities laws. These now prevent the selling "from a Swiss base" of mutual funds that are not registered with the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. To register them now would rob I.O.S. of one of its few remaining assets-freedom from legal surveillance. The new Swiss laws thus have the effect of giving I.O.S. notice to abandon its Geneva headquarters...