Word: swiss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hamas leader in Jordan, a debacle for which Israel paid a heavy political price. But his decision to quit may have been helped by revelations in the Israeli media that Mossad had plunged Israel into yet another diplomatic crisis after a bugging operation in Switzerland. Today, the Swiss government announced the arrest of a Mossad agent caught last week trying to bug foreign nationals on Swiss soil...
...kicking people out for cough medicine." "It's too bad," says American pro snowboarder Adam Merriman. "Pot doesn't make your muscles swell up--otherwise he'd have a reason to lose his gold. But marijuana just mellows you out. I don't understand why they busted him." Says Swiss halfpipe rider Anita Schwaller: "It's so ridiculous. It's not the riders who wanted to be in the Olympics; they wanted us." (Snowboarding is still banned in many elite ski resorts, including, during regular season, the course in Nagano...
With two preliminary runs and two finals, the halfpipe riders powered through the relentless downpour, pumping up the resilient crowd that lined the course in bleachers and stood thousands deep at the bottom. In the end, Swiss rider Gian Simmen managed to edge out Norwegian Daniel Franck in the day's last run for the gold medal. American Ross Powers hung on for bronze with huge airs and rapid rotations. Germany's Nicola Thost took the first women's halfpipe gold and Norway's Stine Brun Kjeldaas picked up the silver. American Shannon Dunn slipped slightly just before...
...compete, each team had to have an average ranking below that of master level. Under the tournament's "Swiss System," teams with similar rankings compete against one another...
...possible to blame my upbringing for my inability to appreciate the Nagano Games. While I'm sure that the Finns and Swiss care...