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...that was then, and this is now,” you say? Then take a look at the Swiss. No one can deny that Switzerland is a thoroughly modern country with a high standard of living. Yet, in Switzerland, less than 25 percent of young people go to high school or college. In fact, you will find that many of the top managers of the businesses for which they are known, never went to high school. Rather, they were apprenticed into their profession at the age of 16. The next three years are spent half in on the job training...
During their glorious run from 1984 to 1999, not once did U.S. stocks place first among 11 major markets, including France, Germany, Singapore, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, Switzerland and Canada. On a yearly basis, U.S. stocks finished in the bottom half more than half the time, according to Morgan Stanley Capital International. While U.S. stocks did well, you would have had less volatility and higher returns by owning foreign stocks...
...Kosovo border proved groundless. By week's end they were back, striking at police positions in Tetovo and drawing a furious response from army tanks and artillery. "The fighters will remain in their positions," Fazli Veliu, a spokesman for the rebels, told TIME from his home in Geneva, Switzerland. "They will not withdraw until their demands...
When the globe's rich and powerful gathered to schmooze and ski at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, two months ago, the Europeans had a certain spring in their step. Blackouts in California and chads in Florida were making the American colossus look a little silly. Europe's 2001 growth rate seemed likely to beat the Land of Greenspan's for the first time in a decade. In the members' lounge, elegantly dressed CEOs quietly talked up the coming decade of Europe...
...Well, I had never left such that I wasn't planning to go back. I was only abroad because I had gone to Switzerland to pay for my son's schooling. Three months later, on a slight detour to Los Angeles, the revolution came, and everyone told me you can't return. But I hadn't taken anything with me, so despite all the pressures, and this talk of the dangers of what would happen to me if I do, I went back...