Word: switzerland
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...been removed from its silver casket not just for the public but also to several waves of scientific observers. The trend's high point occurred in 1978, when the Roman Catholic Church allowed a five-day extravaganza during which more than two dozen scientists from the U.S., Italy and Switzerland performed a battery of tests on the shroud and also used pieces of tape to lift material from its surface for later study. The tests included photo- and electron microscopy, X rays, spectroscopy, ultraviolet fluorescence, thermography and chemical analyses. Among the scientists' findings: that the shroud had come into direct...
...thrive on investors in New York City; New Zealand; Fort Worth, Texas; and Nashville, Tenn.; a globally scattered network of chums from Harvard Business School; ceaseless international E-mail; cell-phone calls from a lawyer named Larry; and Yan's addiction to the jet-set schmooze fest in Davos, Switzerland, each January. "I go to Davos and can talk to Newt Gingrich," enthuses Yan, who indeed seems voluble enough to talk to anyone, quite emphatically, and at any length. "I call him Newt. And I realize we're all the same: the trousers go on one leg at a time...
...exploring a merger, likely to cost several hundred jobs. For different reasons, recently merged Salomon Smith Barney is cutting as many as 1,500 positions. Chase Manhattan, after combining with Chemical Bank in 1996, is laying off about 3,000. The Swiss Bank Corp. merger with Union Bank of Switzerland has prompted a flood of pink slips in New York City. There's been selective pruning at the merged Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover. And since Asia tanked, international firms, including NatWest Securities, J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, have been letting people go around the world. Says Howard Gabler...
INJURED. PICABO STREET, 26, dogged downhiller who rebounded from a career-threatening knee injury to win a gold medal at the Nagano Olympics; in Crans Montana, Switzerland. Street, who won a silver medal in the '94 Olympics, broke her leg in this season's final downhill...
...Dick Button '52 entered Harvard. Like most freshmen, Button was good at something. His special talent was figure skating. Button came into Harvard having already won a gold medal in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland...