Word: switzerland
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...message seems to be getting through, rates of fatal heart attacks among both men and women have been dropping by about 3% a year since 1968. Yet in Sweden, where antismoking and other risk-reduction campaigns have been vigorously pursued, death rates for both sexes have been rising. In Switzerland, where there has been a decline in heart attack deaths among women, smoking among women and consumption of animal fats are on the upswing. Says Dr. Zbynek Pisa, chief of WHO's department of cardiovascular diseases: "The statistics give us little or no clue in correlating heart disease with...
...slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse: "There is no mistaking that the world is moving into perhaps its most difficult phase since World War II, and governments cannot do very much about it. After three decades of Keynesianism, old instruments of policy do not work any more...
...price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists as well, among them Marthe Keller, who is assigned to seduce and then betray Scott...
Behram D. Irani Zumikon, Switzerland...
...vote demonstrated that the years of repressive rule had not dulled democratic impulses in a country that was once known as "the Switzerland of South America." The armed forces had seized power in stages during the early '70s after emerging as a law-and-order counterforce to the Tupamaros, the violent young leftist radicals, similar to Italy's Red Brigades, who scourged the country with guerrilla terror. The military's apparent mistake in fashioning the rejected constitution was the sweeping power it gave itself. Under the vague pretext of national security, it was to have a part...