Word: austria
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This was greeted with outrage in Austria and dismay in the U.S. Austrian Culture Minister Elizabeth Gehrer called Morgenthau's intervention a "heavy blow to the international exchange of art" that "shakes the foundations of trust." It seemed particularly insulting that Morgenthau's office had behaved as though the present Austrian government, whose conduct in the restitution of art stolen by Nazis after the Anschluss has been impeccable, would stoop to the sort of cover-up deployed by Swiss bankers over their stocks of stolen Jewish gold...
...Even 40 years later, as he laughs at the memory, his eyes harden; he shifts his neck under his collar. Had the smuggler betrayed him? "We thought, 'Shit, this is it.'" The man shouted again. Now at the limits of his courage, the boy finally answered: "Where are we?" "Austria," came the reply. The relief poured cool as the rain. Andras Grof, a name he would later Americanize to Andrew Grove, stood up and picked his way toward the future...
This treaty comes as rather a surprise in two ways. The negotiators were happy and surprised that members finally agreed on the treaty, since Germany, Austria and Finland had resisted accepting laws that went beyond their own domestic policy. To most of us unacquainted with international business, it is a surprise because bribery was assumed to be "bad" throughout the world. Certainly, it was unexpected that some countries still allow bribes to foreign officials to be written off as tax-deductible business expenses...
...refugee from Austria at the time of the Nazi regime, Wolf received a masters in public administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was also appointed as a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...Chinese tried pressuring the governor of the Argentine province of Mendoza. When he refused to cave, Annaud says, China put pressure on the Argentine government, which said thanks, but we can make our own policy on lucrative location shoots. The film was finally shot in Argentina, Chile, England, Austria and British Columbia. But the ruckus made Annaud a semiofficial Enemy of the People's Republic. "I am supposedly banned from China," he notes. Friends have seen his picture hanging in a consulate like a 10 Most Wanted poster...