Word: switzerland
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...International Olympic Committee, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is concerned, there is no going back on the 1981 decision to give the Games to South Korea. Said I.O.C. Spokeswoman Michele Verdier last week: "The Games have been awarded to Seoul, and there is absolutely no change in our position." Only an "act of war," she said, might change the committee's view. Verdier has solid precedent on her side: the quadrennial Summer Games have been suspended only three times -- in 1916, 1940 and 1944 -- and in each case because of a world conflict...
...landing in all corners of Europe. In Italy, where tourism accounts for 7% of the gross national product, the splashing Fountain of Trevi in Rome is once more filling up with the coins tossed by sentimental U.S. tourists. The Swiss state railways report that Americans planning vacations in Switzerland bought twice as many rail passes in May as they did a year earlier. The airline SAS reports that tickets from the U.S. to Scandinavia are "basically sold...
...aesthetic aspirations. More than 200 architects from 15 countries entered IBA's invitational design competitions, and the winners constitute a sort of international Who's Who. West Berlin has or will soon have new IBA buildings by O.M. Ungers (West Germany), Hans Hollein (Austria), Rob Krier (Luxembourg), Mario Botta (Switzerland), Aldo Rossi (Italy), Oriol Bohigas (Spain), Rem Koolhaas (the Netherlands), James Stirling (Britain), Arata Isozaki (Japan) and, from the U.S., Charles Moore, Robert A.M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman, Peter Eisenman and John Hejduk. A museum show tied to IBA, "750 Years of Architecture and Urban Design," is currently on view...
That was the situation in 1983 when Karl Alex Muller, a physicist at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, decided to pursue an approach to superconductivity that had met with limited success in the past. Instead of using the kind of metallic alloys that held the existing record, he turned his attention to the metallic oxides (compounds of metals and oxygen) known as ceramics. Some theorists had suggested ceramics as potential superconductors even though they were poor conductors at room temperatures. In fact, ceramics are often used as insulators-for example, on high-voltage electric- transmission lines...
...friend of Singlaub's; Ellen Garwood, the Texas multimillionaire who donated lavishly to Channell's groups; and Jane McLaughlin, a former Channell aide who has spoken freely about his White House ties. Hakim, expected to return from living abroad, will flesh out the details of secret money transfers through Switzerland and the Cayman Islands...