Word: preware
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...organization with all this power was established at the Bretton Woods conference near the end of World War II. The goal was to build a new international economic order and thus avoid a repetition of the prewar period's spreading economic chaos, which had set the stage for Hitler. The organization today operates from a headquarters in Washington only a few blocks from the White House, which alone makes it suspect in the eyes of some countries. Its top executives include managing director Michel Camdessus (a Frenchman) and first deputy managing director Stanley Fischer (an American). They report...
...devoted to him--and certainly overjoyed to get him back--Larissa Tsibliyev couldn't help wincing when she heard her husband equate mission success with personal survival. Vasily had made it sound as if he had gone up to Mir on a dare, like riding the roof of a prewar elevator. And now the family had been shamed, and the neighbors would snicker and cluck and throw at their windows whatever rotting turnips could be spared in these difficult times...
...telling us, 'We can't give you any money because you have no records.' Now if they say we still can't have it, the implications are monstrous. After all, this is their list, not ours." Jewish organizations in Europe and the U.S. believe Switzerland's vaults still hold prewar deposits that, with a half-century of interest, could be worth $3 billion to $7 billion today. Even if the claim is too high--as it probably is--many millions of dollars are involved. Beyond that, newly invigorated probers have been digging into all aspects of Switzerland's unsavory history...
...deposit in Switzerland, a charge Bern vigorously denies. Not all of it was taken from captured central banks. Some was gold from the jewelry and teeth of Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots and camouflaged them with the stamp of the prewar Reichsbank. Despite knowledge of the magnitude of such actions, in 1946 the Allies signed an agreement under which the Swiss handed over only about $60 million to be repaid to the looted countries...
...sickness pattern among those who were at Kamisiyah. Critics argue that the lack of a pattern is not conclusive. Some researchers suggest that chemical agents may cause illness through a specific sequence of events that can affect everyone differently. They fear that a combination of nerve-gas exposure, prewar vaccinations against such toxins and environmental hazards like smoky oil fires may all trigger variations of the syndrome in different victims. Scientists have begun to explore the effect of minuscule doses of such gases. In the past it was thought that only amounts of nerve agents sufficient to cause near immediate...