Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morphine base were smuggled from Turkey to Sicily, processed into 1,650 lbs. of heroin, then sneaked through airports and distributed by pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. More than $40 million in profits went back to Sicily in a laundering scheme involving banks in New York, Switzerland, Bermuda and the Bahamas...
Dunne's is a cold, cruel and murderous world observed from an emotional distance. "I am by disposition one of life's neutrals, a human Switzerland," says Jack Broderick, the novel's woeful narrator. He combines the characteristics of a disillusioned moralist with the casualness of an old- fashioned remittance man. A $10 million trust fund from his billionaire father allows him to play at making a living, if not a life...
...telephone interview from Geneva, Switzerland Saturday, Rubbia refused to comment on his threatened resignation...
...much sought-after goal proved to be elusive. In the early 1970s scientists found an alloy of niobium and germanium that lost all resistance at 23 K. Then, last April, a group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland announced development of a compound of barium, lanthanum, copper and oxygen that appeared to begin the transition to superconductivity...
Suddenly, though, Rossignol's reputation has taken a spill. French skiers, ! two-thirds of whom use skis supplied by Rossignol or its Dynastar subsidiary, have had a dismal season. It culminated earlier this month with their total failure at the world championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. While Swiss skiers claimed eight gold medals and even tiny Luxembourg carried off a gold, not one of the 30 prizes at stake was won by a French skier. The dejected French competitors blamed the bad showing on their skis and on poor preparation by the team's technical support staff, most of whom...