Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearances, divine purpose is still faithfully served along Zurich's elegant Bahnhofstrasse, where the great names of Swiss banking conduct their worldwide affairs behind stately fagades of Alpine granite. Yet the air of heavenly serenity on the stylish street provides a curtain for mundane turmoil. After the worst scandal in Swiss banking history, that sedate and secretive industry has moved-or rather been pushed-to tighten up some practices that have proved shockingly loose. The changes may turn out to be far-reaching...
...first step in Switzerland's bank reform program took effect this month: a new code of conduct, drawn up by the Swiss National Bank, the country's central financial institution, and the Swiss Bankers' Association. No longer are clients allowed to open a Swiss account without revealing their true identity. Anonymous banking, when it was allowed, was a powerful attraction for corrupt dictators and Mafiosi, among others, seeking to hide their funds. Under the new rules, Swiss bankers are barred from providing active assistance to customers who evade taxes or export capital illegally from foreign countries...
Chicago. Johnny, 16, who had a long record of arrests for disorderly conduct, simple battery and aggravated assault, lured a motorist into an alley. He drew a .22-cal. pistol and shot the driver six times, killing him. Johnny was arrested yet again, but he was released because witnesses failed to show up in court. Today he is free...
Long-Range Strategy. Businessmen attending the seminar were quick to issue rebuttals. PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall noted that Kissinger has confessed that economics is not exactly his forte and suggested that commenting on how U.S. corporations conduct themselves abroad is not either. On the point of long-range strategy, Kendall pointed out that he began negotiating with the Soviet government in 1969, about when Kissinger himself did, and is still at it (PepsiCo has developed a lucrative business bottling soft drinks in Russia). Nathaniel Samuels, a director of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., asserted that one reason businessmen do not call...
...maximum penalty: life imprisonment). The Red Brigades responded by assassinating a prominent jurist; the trial was thereupon postponed. When the distinguished septuagenarian president of the Turin bar asked to aid in Curcio's defense, he was shot to death near his office. Curcio, who demanded the right to conduct his own defense, declared that the lawyer was a "collaborationist of the regime" and had been "executed." As the Turin trial was rescheduled to begin in May, most prospective jurors filed medical certificates excusing them from serving, and two of the six who did show up in court sobbed...