Word: leverence
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Foul! The most feared competitor is Japan's highly automated watch industry, which has captured 8% of the global market and is growing fast, mainly with jeweled-lever watches that generally sell for $30 or more. Last year the Japanese jolted the Swiss by winning all but one of the prizes for wristwatches in Geneva's chronometer competition, the horological equivalent of the Olympic Games. The Swiss are still crying foul. The Japanese watches, they say, had oversize balance wheels for better performance and were never intended for the mass market. "When you think of how the Germans...
...also being pressed by the Soviets, primarily in the less expensive lines. The U.S.S.R. has 6% of the world export trade for watches, and dumps another 3,000,000 movements a year that sell for as little as 500 apiece, mostly in Asia and Africa. Often these cheap pin-lever works turn up in bogus Swiss casings with labels that might easily be mistaken for some of the world's best-known brands...
...street gangs is not a sufficient political strategy. Older workers, more seriously exploited materially and psychologically, must be made the objects of a long-term organizing effort. In the short run their support is the best guarantee against the government's obliteration of radical polities, and the most persuasive lever on elective officials to bring the War to an end. In the long term it is they who should shape the social changes that will benefit them...
...point, more simply, is that Harvard should stop pretending that the situation is under control and start thinking about using its influence responsibly. While the University does not own anything like a controlling interest in Middle South, it is one of the larger and more prestigious institutional investors. That lever-combined with Bennett's seat on the Middle South board-should give Harvard the influence it needs to make its involvement with Middle South something to be proud of, rather than another case of taint by association...
Hurried Calls. As the week progressed, Israel's lever of rage pivoted to the north and west. In a statement directed at the Beirut government to the north, Israel protested that Arab guerrillas based in Lebanon had carried out two dozen acts of violence in a recent two-week period. Unless the terrorism and incursions were stopped, warned the Israelis, Lebanon would suffer. To emphasize the point, an Israeli patrol crossed the border, blew up five abandoned houses, and warned Lebanese villagers in Arabic that worse would follow if guerrilla raids continued. Beirut protested that most of the incidents...