Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brink of collapse, the President last week invoked his executive authority to grant Mexico $20 billion in loans and loan guarantees as the centerpiece of a coordinated bailout. Following Washington's lead, the International Monetary Fund agreed to provide Mexico with a further $17.8 billion, and the Swiss- based Bank for International Settlements kicked in an additional $10 billion...
...Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another...
...short time ago, a Swiss-based international research organization found the U.S. once again had the world's most competitive economy, having ended Japan's eight-year hold on first place. It figures, because-not although, because-so many sages had been assuring us so recently that we could never meet Japanese competition unless we turned ourselves into imitation Japanese. Connoisseurs of economic nonsense will be surprised only that this bit of dogma was refuted so quickly. It usually takes somewhat longer for a universal belief about the economy to be exposed as false and to mutate into another that...
...Arts-style War Veterans' Memorial Building and so cramped that the permanent collection had to be taken down whenever a temporary show went up. In 1990 designs for a new building were made public. It would cost $60 million, all in private money, and the architect was an Italian-Swiss little known in America: Mario Botta...
...After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple in Asian and Australian households; in Sydney. Working for the Swiss food giant Nestle, Mayne spent four years experimenting before he perfected a recipe for the Milo powder mix that Nestle launched in 1934. Today 90,000 tons of Milo worth $420 million are sold each year in 30 countries...