Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeanette M. Davy Lausanne, Switzerland...
...dollar: We are fully cooperating with President Carter's dollar-defense measures through the swap mechanism [through which the central banks of Japan, West Germany and Switzerland extend the U.S. credit to buy yen, marks and Swiss francs]. I believe this swap system should be enlarged to make it even more effective...
...Barron's Regent Series. "Mr. Barron started small like I did in a little store in Brooklyn, and I don't know how many times I came in to tell him about the mistakes he was making in his books," said Kaplan, who today has branches in Switzerland, Toronto and San Juan. Kaplan says that Barron finally told him to put up or shut up, and gave him his first chance at writing a textbook...
...after spending her earlier years--she started skating when she was six--fighting the slapshots for ice time and training in Copenhagen and Switzerland during the summers, Tintti headed for Colorado, the center of American figure skating...
...affair, even though it brought two Wagner babies into his household. One reason for the unusual arrangement was that all three wanted to keep the scandal from the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was their adoring, idealistic patron. Finally in 1868, pregnant once again, Cosima left for Switzerland to live with Wagner, and here the diary begins. She saw it as a way of explaining to her children how a Godfearing woman like herself could have done such a thing. (Actually, an example was close at hand: Cosima was the illegitimate child of Franz Lizst and a married...