Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baker and entrepreneur who seemed to be doing more than selling pizza at his Al Dente pizza parlor. It gathered momentum when investigators obtained evidence that couriers for Catalano's group were transferring enormous amounts of cash through investment houses and banks in New York, Italy and Switzerland...
...typical deal, explains Giuliani, Alfano and his people would agree on a quantity of heroin to be delivered and set a price with Giuseppi Ganci, Catalano's chief lieutenant. The money would be wired from brokerage accounts at major firms to secret accounts in Switzerland, where it might remain for three or four months before a member of the Badalamenti family collected it. Meanwhile, as a sign of trust between the two groups, the heroin would be delivered. The actual smuggling is done in innumerable ways. One example: a year ago, FBI agents examined a load of ceramic tiles...
Radcliffe College Announced yesterday that it has established the Matina S. Horner Chair for Distinguished Visiting Professors, funded by a $300,000 grant from the Latsis Foundation, a Switzerland-based firm...
...QUICKLY becomes clear that McPhee's admiration for the Swiss system is not limited to their ability to repel an attack. He is equally impressed by the role the Swiss citizen army has played in shaping one of the world's more tranquil societies. He writes that "Switzerland does not have an army. Switzerland is an Army." The Swiss seem to have maintained the idea, out of fashion elsewhere in the developed world, that an army can do more for a nation than just protect it. Instead, the Swiss see their army as a reversed social institution, bringing together citizens...
...that the army can play a role in unifying a society as well as in protecting it has scarcely been discussed in the United States in recent years. Instead, our armed forces have primarily become a home for socially marginal individuals who cannot find anything better to do. In Switzerland, military service is revered as a social duty, much like voting. By contrast, many Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of military service and keep it at arm's length--if they can afford...