Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese bond issues and state aid for the city--has, the Manhattan observers try to assure themselves, finally tilted in their favor...
STOCKHOLM -- Two Americans and a Swiss won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of a method to break apart genetic material that may be an important step in the understanding of cancer and hereditary diseases...
...largest producer and seller of infant formula in the Third World is the Swiss corporation Nestle. Nestle operates 81 plants in 27 underdeveloped countries, raking in $300 million annually in infant formula sales. While some corporations--such as Bristol Myers and Borden--have responded to complaints by consumer, church and health organizations by terminating sales to consumers in poor countries, Nestle has refused to acknowledge its role in this serious nutritional problem. It continues to send "milk nurses" (sales personnel dressed in medical-like uniforms) to villages, sales representatives to hospital maternity wards, and free samples to many hospitals. Unfortunately...
...value of the dollar determines much more than merely what the doctor in Houston must pay for his new Mercedes-Benz or the housewife in St. Paul for her Swiss chocolates. Prices of domestic goods go up because the competing imports are more expensive; the dollar's decline will add as much as 1.5% to the inflation rate this year. More important, a nation's currency is the symbol of its economic vitality and the instrument by which it exercises its world role. The fall of the once-mighty British pound from...
SUPPORT THE DOLLAR. Everyone from Swiss gnomes to Brooklyn cabbies agrees that the dollar is grossly undervalued. It can buy much more at home than abroad. Says Yale Economist Robert Triffin: "I used to buy all my suits in Europe because they cost half as much as in America. Now the situation is exactly reversed, and I buy my clothes...