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...stands: on the ubiquitous mothers recalling 5 a.m. drives to the rink and on the spectators who stop breathing while they wait for a figure skater to land. The fans of Franz Heinzer, the great favorite in the downhill, stomped, rang bells and waved heraldic banners when their Swiss hero hit the slopes; less than two minutes later, their hopes were dead. When AJ Kitt came down the course, eight Americans huddled round walkie-talkies and urged him on, "Go, go, be aggressive, be aggressive. That's it, come on. Be aggressive!" He finished ninth. And when local favorite Fabrice...
...national stereotyping weren't in enough danger, in early round-robin play of the tournament, the "Goon of the Games" award for most penalized player went not to a Canadian or an American but to Patrice Brasey of the usually docile Swiss. Brasey alone has spent almost as much time sulking in the penalty box as the entire U.S. team, which, for its part, was playing more politely than the traditionally sportsmanlike Czechs or Finns...
...learns to agree with Christopher Hibbert, saying "the peoples of Europe have for at least three hundred years been living up to their stereotypes." He then states that since the sixteenth century travelers have described "the Italians as voluble, unreliable, and hopelessly corrupt; the Germans as gluttonous; the Swiss as irritatingly officious and tidy; the French as, well, insufferably French...
...specter of a national treasure in foreign hands haunted the French last week as Swiss food conglomerate Nestle unwrapped a hostile bid to take over Source Perrier, France's bottled-water king and a company once deemed financially invulnerable. It was no solace that Italy's Agnelli group, which is bent on diversifying beyond automaker Fiat, was competing with Nestle for the rights to sell the famous little green bottles all over the world...
...additional storage facilities -- the Guggenheim floated $54.9 million in tax- exempt bonds in 1989. Other museums issue bonds to finance projects, but typically use their endowments as collateral. The Guggenheim has an endowment of only $30 million and its loans are secured with a letter of credit from the Swiss Bank Corp...