Word: sion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also included accusations that they laundered gold looted by the Nazis. Swiss officials are convinced that such revelations ?- and the stonewalling that came between facts and reparations ?- cost them the 2006 Winter Olympics, which last weekend were awarded to the Italian city of Turin rather than Swiss front-runner Sion. So they?re bargaining with their only chip ?- the secrecy of their banks. In the last few years, the world?s most discreet bankers have blown the whistle on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire. The Swiss are only...
...They were not the first to take over buildings in the late '60s, and the University had been preparing itself for such a possibility since the summer of 1968. In January, the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board, had given President Nathan M. Pusey '28 permis- sion to call the police in the event of adisruption at Harvard...
There's no doubt that reform is needed. In September the Swiss senate granted the I.O.C. a tax abatement worth $1.5 million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...
...Sion is the front runner for the 20th Winter Olympics...
...think Weld has come to the conclu- sion that this type of offense is not what theConstitution is talking about," Steele said...