Word: rapallo
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...reached what would be retirement age if you retired from the kind of business associations he has made, which you don't. But he does. He has been skimming the Mob's share of the take for years, and he has used the boodle to buy a villa in Rapallo, Italy, where he was stationed during World...
...Rapallo? Because Leonard, who has written 30 crime novels, most of them set in Detroit, now wants to write about Rapallo. Maybe even, who knows, write off a trip to Rapallo as a business expense; nothing wrong with that...
...Rapallo Conference of 1918, the newly-formed Bolshevik leadership of the Soviet Union, led by Lenin, did the same thing when they decided they simply had no obligation to pay back any of the millions of dollars in loans incurred during World War I back to their debtors. But at least they didn't try to make anyone believe they had a legal right...
...Moscow presents Kohl with a different diplomatic challenge: how to assure his allies in Europe that the German powerhouse, the largest economy in the European Community, is not seeking to control Eastern Europe. Even before he arrived home, Kohl was asked if the Zheleznovodsk agreement was a new Rapallo -- a reference to the 1922 treaty between the communist U.S.S.R. and the Weimar Republic that paved the way for German rearmament after World War I. The comparison is "wholly off," said Kohl, because "the reunified Germany is part of NATO and the European Community...
...POUND Rapallo, Italy...