Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...
...disappointed. That was the consensus of TIME's European Board of Economists, which met in London for its semiannual review of Europe's outlook. Average growth in the gross national products of the major West European nations will be a solid but unspectacular 3% in 1987, predicted Switzerland's Hans Mast, senior economic adviser to the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank. The expected growth rate will be up slightly from 2.5% in 1986 -- not the kind of acceleration Washington has in mind...
...agreements with steel-producing countries that limit exports to the U.S. market. Last year, as the trade hue and cry rose once again on Capitol Hill, the Administration pressured Japan and Taiwan into limiting their exports of machine tools to the U.S. for five years. When West Germany and Switzerland refused to go along with such "voluntary" restraints, Washington set quotas that rolled back their exports to levels set in 1981 and 1985. Also in 1986, the Administration negotiated separate agreements with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that limited the growth of their textile exports...
...electron tunneling microscope, invented five years ago in Switzerland, uses electron currents to measure the location of atoms on a surface, said Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin...
...issuing scores of subpoenas for individuals and documents, Hamilton said in a meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill, the House committee intends to press for access to bank records from Switzerland, Panama and the Cayman Islands...