Word: swiss
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Also on tap is the first-year formal, just twoweeks away. The event, also organized by thecouncil, will be held at the Swiss Hotel in Bostonon Saturday, Feb. 20. The black tie affair hastraditionally seen a good turnout...
...Iacocca launched EV Global in late 1996. Now EVG has 10 employees, support from Taiwan's Giant bicycle (which produces the E-Bike) and backing from private Swiss and Italian financiers ("Europe is our next stop," he says). Iacocca has also invested in Energy Conversion Devices, an innovative Detroit batterymaker run by former General Motors chairman Robert Stempel, and in Unique Mobility Inc., which designs some of the world's most advanced electric motors. "We're assembling all the people who want to be part of the electric-vehicle revolution," says Iacocca. "This is how you get it started...
...week a former Nagano committee official disclosed that a 90-volume financial record of the bid process had been destroyed in 1992 because it contained "secret information." And Nagano mayor Tasuku Tsukada reversed previous denials and admitted to TIME that Nagano's campaign had paid $363,000 to a Swiss-based agency run by Goran Takacs, son of Samaranch's friend Artur Takacs. Tsukada insisted the agent was retained only to act as liaison with I.O.C. officials, "not to collect votes, as people are saying happened in Salt Lake City...
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...
...factor is the scare that erupted in 1996 over "mad cow" disease in British beef. Though the disease was caused by feeding animal parts to cows, rather than by genetic meddling, the panic left consumers extremely wary about what goes onto the family dinner table. Herbert Krach of the Swiss Small Farmers Union notes, "For years scientists assured us that feeding animal-based feeds to cattle was harmless." But the cautions also owe something to romantic--and perhaps outdated--notions about agriculture. Says population geneticist Brian Johnson of Britain's conservation watchdog English Nature: "Conventional intensive agriculture has done more...