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Swiss bankers admit that numbered accounts have been exploited, but they put most of the blame on the 100 or so foreign-owned banks in their country and only a handful of small, Swiss-owned institutions. They insist that, contrary to legend, the biggest banks do not cater to South American dictators or Mafia magnates. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the thousands of numbered accounts belong to Europeans rather than Americans...
...night spots, Club Tokyo and Night Tokyo, now cater to an all-female clientele with well-scrubbed young hosts in dark suits who are available for cosy chats and dancing at $2.22 per hour. The aim, explains Club Tokyo Manager Motoki Inoue, is "sex equality in this he-man's land." Nightly, merry widows in miniskirts and portly housewives in kimonos turn up where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre...
...dazzling production. A Tim Mayer and (to a lesser extent) a Thom Babe show is like a great big present; there's so much of this one you'll just have to see it twice if you are willing to admit to the gluttony Mayer and Babe so skillfully cater...
...capital terms, much of Europe is an underdeveloped area. The Continent lacks many of the broad-based financial institutions that, in the U.S., have transformed "people's capitalism" from a flag-waving slogan into a reality that works. The bourses exist in an aroma of gossip, cater primarily to a thin group of the elite. In France, most brokers do not even advertise-and the first one who does so aggressively may get on to quite a good thing. Still fearful of invasion and deflation, peasants tend to distrust securities, put their money in the mattress and their faith...
...obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony in the fact that a svelte Negro beauty, who craves Mortimer's body, insists on a pay-as-you-go arrangement in order to cater to what she presumes is his sense of racial superiority...