Word: switzerland
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Invented by a Danish physician in 1984, the female condom is already available under the name Femidom in Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway and Switzerland, and will go on sale this month in France. The version made by Wisconsin Pharmacal is a 7-in.-long polyurethane sheath with a ring on each end. The inner ring is inserted into the vagina, much like a diaphragm, while the other ring remains outside...
Canada suffered an increase in crime after it increased the restrictions on gun ownership. Furthermore, Switzerland and Israel have large numbers of licensed, gun-owning citizens, and the number of crimes committed by legal firearms owners in those countries has been very...
Multinational corporations are vital to the survival and growth of world trade, said David de Pury, chair of the Switzerland-based BBC Brown Hoveri Ltd., at the Kennedy School's Start Auditorium last night...
Allison K. Hughes '94, president of the club, said de Pury was chosen to speak because of his active role in the annual International Management Symposium (IMS) in St. Gallen, Switzerland, organized by the International Students Committee...
...outcome, like Switzerland itself, contained elements of both compromise and illogic. After rejecting one female legislator, on what some called sexist grounds, for membership on the ruling seven-member Federal Council, parliament approved a woman nonlegislator with the same background (a French-speaking socialist) and roughly similar political views (a reduced role for the military, pro-E.C.). The principal difference between the rejected Christiane Brunner and winner Ruth Dreifuss, says Dreifuss, is that "I reassure people because I look a little plain...