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...three-mile event, Olympic gold medallist Rob Waddell raced to a first-place finish in a time of 18:20.89. Xeno Meuller from Switzerland, the silver medallist in Sydney and the gold medallist from Atlanta, finished second with a time...
That's the idea behind Dichter's company, Technology for the People, founded in 1977. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, TFTP confronts a common challenge of the developing world: while small and medium-size firms need help from the industrialized world, rich-country production technology is expensive to buy and maintain. Dichter's solution was to notice that many enterprises in southern and Southeast Asia have the technical and managerial expertise to help start-up businesses in other developing countries. "Their operating costs are much lower than those of a Western company, so they demand less return on their investment...
...done everything we can for them," said Consul of Switzerland Xavier Comtesse. " If they refuse to be happy, it's their choice...
...need to educate our local leadership and let them know that we have a problem," Pitkin said. "The government of Switzerland should also know that this is not a very good way to behave...
...researcher-writer in Switzerland last summer, I was sent on dangerous hikes alone several times, even though the book I was writing for warned readers never to hike these trails alone...