Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden has long and proudly refused women the right to vote in local elections. Last week it stepped into the 20th century, but not because it wanted to. The Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne declared that Appenzell's 4,500 women over age 20 did have the right to vote. The justices, responding to a petition by two Appenzell women, ruled that a 1981 amendment to the constitution declaring men and women equal before the law should take precedence over cantonal legislation...
...countrymen, or at least everyone with access to a microphone, an op-ed page or a pulpit. Criticisms ranged from the reasonable (an appeal for the Pentagon not to cancel troop rotations) to the ridiculous (the suggestion that the U.S. is defending Arab princes' right to polygyny and Swiss bank accounts). But the significance of the controversy lay less in the substance of specific gripes, caveats and misgivings than in the overall tone of collective dithering. An observer, including one in Baghdad, might conclude that the American body politic was showing the first signs of a failure of nerve...
With the specter of recession looming across the U.S., consumers and companies have cut back their spending. Yet Swiss jeweler Piaget, whose motto is "Always do better than is necessary," is betting that the time is ripe for a new round of conspicuous consumption. Later this month Piaget will unveil its $1 million, gem-encrusted Aura watch, a flashy bauble that sports 237 diamonds set in an 18-karat-gold band and case...
...Velvet or local color from Twin Peaks. But the man who dreamed up both of those nightmare entertainments pays her no heed. In the woodsy main dining room of Musso & Frank's, Hollywood's oldest eatery, the 44-year-old multimedia auteur concentrates on ordering his usual lunch: "A Swiss cheese, real Swiss cheese, on whole wheat. A side order of steamed broccoli. And a Coke." In his soft tenor voice, he discusses nutrition: "Do you like it when your sandwich is burned like that? That's not supposed to be good for you. But it sure tastes good, though...
...astrologers -- he keeps the Koran at his bedside. He suffers from diabetes, back trouble, a weakness of the heart and shortness of breath, but still chain-smokes Marlboros. He has tried repeatedly, with varying success, to lose weight by methods ranging from diets to occasional visits to a Swiss fat farm...