Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the Mont Blanc Bridge. Just last month, two feet of snow suddenly blocked all avenues to the Palais des Nations, the U.N.'s European headquarters, and forced the postponement of an international conference on human rights. Incroyable. Nobody could remember such a thing ever happening before. Swiss army recruits had to clear away the snow...
...year, on the tsetse fly, on slave labor, on trade tariffs, on the future of the Australian wombat. Conferences are supposed to begin and end punctually, and then the delegates depart to make room for the next set of delegates. That is the system, and the motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin is "Dominus providebit" (The Lord will provide). This week the $100-a-day hotels are filling up with visitors to the world's biggest auto show, which is being held at the new Palexpo exhibition hall. Next week U.S. and Soviet diplomats arrive to resume arms-control...
...because of its beauty and its convenience but also because of its unique traditions and style. It is dedicated to neutrality, like the rest of Switzerland, and yet it is not at all like the rest of Switzerland. It was the last territory to become a canton of the Swiss Confederation, in 1815, after centuries of independence. Its patriotic holiday, known as the Escalade, commemorates the December night in 1602 when an old woman roused and saved the sleeping city by throwing a pot of soup at the invading troops of the Duke of Savoy. Geneva sheltered both the ascetic...
When the victorious Allies of World War I decided to embody their hopes for peace in a League of Nations, some urged Brussels as the symbolic capital of the world, but President Wilson pressed for Geneva. The Swiss later commemorated his support by naming the quai leading toward the Palais des Nations the Quai Wilson. By the time the sprawling marble palais was completed in 1937, however, the league was so moribund that Geneva was sometimes ( referred to as the City of Lost Causes. (This experience inspired C. Northcote Parkinson to include in Parkinson's Law the thesis that...
...with a fine bottle from neighboring Burgundy for about $40. Geneva also has good Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Indian restaurants, not to mention modest brasseries that offer a delicious newly caught perch for about $10. Any American who wants to take advantage of the strong dollar (now worth 2.8 Swiss francs, up from 1.7 five years ago) will find the Rue du Rhone lined with windows displaying Rolex and Patek Philippe watches, Gucci and St. Laurent clothes. Booming Geneva is also second only to Zurich as a Swiss banking center...