Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons" that Berners-Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, he says. "I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I happened to have the right combination of background." The place was CERN, the European physics laboratory that straddles the Swiss-French border, and he was there twice. The first time, in 1980, he had to master its labyrinthine information system in the course of a six-month consultancy. That was when he created his personal memory substitute, a program called Enquire. It allowed him to fill a document with words...
...SWISS BANKS The final blow to the myth of Swiss neutrality: scathing report shows they bankrolled Hitler...
...Eizenstat blasts Switzerland for buying $400 million in Nazi gold between 1939 and 1945, providing cash Eizenstat said "had the clear effect of supporting and prolonging Nazi Germany's capacity to wage war." The persistence of a "business as usual attitude" by Switzerland, he told reporters, was "inexplicable." The Swiss do not find that attitude so hard to explain. Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti reminded the U.S. that in 1939, Switzerland was an avowedly neutral country surrounded throughout the war by Axis regimes. On what grounds should it have refused? The report, Cotti said, "is lacking a measured recognition...
...only should Holocaust victims or their relatives have the opportunity to retrieve money and possessions [WORLD, Feb. 24], but they should also collect interest from the Swiss banks. And they shouldn't even have to mention the word lawsuit. SIMON HUCK Ottawa...
...didn't mention the scores of people who benefited from the guarded nature of Swiss banking. The real story is not so one-sided as you would lead people to believe. WILLIAM R. HOLTZ Thonex, Switzerland