Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countries, Nomura is increasingly showing its muscle on foreign ground. Six years after establishing a full-fledged subsidiary in London, it ranks No. 1 in the Eurobond market, having overtaken the likes of Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston. Nomura controls investment or commercial banks in Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and Bahrain. In the U.S. it is a major dealer in Treasury issues and holds a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In The Second Wave: Japan's Global Assault on Financial Services, Authors Richard W. Wright and Gunther A. Pauli put it this way: "Nomura stands alone...
Kumin's fascination with sugar and chocolate began early. Growing up in Switzerland, he tarried before the windows of bakery shops on the way to school. After a thorough indoctrination in exacting Swiss hotel kitchens, Kumin arrived in North America in 1948. He became pastry chef at Montreal's Ritz-Carleton. In 1958 he was hired by Restaurant Associates, the Manhattan- based concern that operated the Four Seasons and the Forum of the Twelve Caesars...
...June alone. Most of the cancellations, not surprisingly, come from would-be first-time visitors rather than those who visit regularly and have family and friends in Israel. Many Europeans, meanwhile, seem undaunted by reports of the riots. The number of visitors from Japan, Germany, Scandinavia and Switzerland has actually increased this year, although that from France has decreased...
...demonstration quickly turned into disaster. Four minutes after takeoff from a commercial airport just north of Basel, Switzerland, the plane made the first of two planned low-altitude flybys for the crowd of 15,000 attending the air show at the tiny Habsheim, France, airstrip 15 miles away. The announcer touted the new jet ("It's so quiet you can barely hear its engines") as it went by at about 135 m.p.h...
...currency traders feverishly bought dollars, most central banks stood by idly until the momentum began to grow. The banks of eight European countries -- West Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Belgium -- finally intervened by unloading some of their stocks of the currency. But the dollar kept climbing because the two largest countries -- the U.S. and Japan -- refused to resist the trend...