Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morris tries, almost successfully, to balance the amount of commentary and observation--political and social--with a fair amount of cute little anecdotes about her spur-of-the-moment picnics on the Swiss hillsides or her random run-ins with Margaret Thatcher on a busy street...
FORTUNE Business Report delivers the goods--and goodies--from the day's market action. Tonight: the dark and mysterious "Swiss interest," a bailout alert, and Coke--gasp!--loses...
...coincidentally, hotel values and returns are soaring, as the recent battle for ITT Corp. (Sheraton) has demonstrated. His goal is to create, with international partners, a web of four- and five-star hotels around the world. He currently owns 50% of the Fairmont group, 30% of Movenpick, a Swiss chain, and 25% of the upmarket Four Seasons chain. He is the sole owner of the deluxe George V in Paris and owns half of the Inn on the Park in London and the Plaza in New York, plus 17 other luxury hotels. His blueprint calls for 42 new hotels...
Unlike the millions of victims who perished in the Holocaust, the possessions they were forced to leave behind often survived the war. The search for lost gold and cash has recently focused on Swiss banks, but the quest for their art is broader, spreading throughout Europe and into the U.S. Experts estimate that there are scores, perhaps hundreds, of paintings, prints and lithographs stolen by the Nazis that are now in America's private collections and top museums. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two allegedly looted paintings, one claimed by the Belgian government, the other...
...Reports" series, which doubtless explains the abrupt endings of various segments of the film (insert commercial here) and the ominous narration. A startled viewer might initially mistake Blood Money for "Unsolved Mysteries": even the most innocuous events are made to sound sinister, and phrases like "the darker questions [about Swiss neutrality] are beginning to emerge" abound...