Word: switzerland
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...number of cases with obscure names like Benex and Mabetex are under investigation in Russia, Switzerland and the U.S. They're not connected, but taken together they seem to illustrate the remarkable variety of ways in which Russia was looted. Most so far involve sparse, unproved allegations, and it will take years before anyone knows whether any laws were broken and by whom. All the individuals whose names have surfaced deny any wrongdoing...
...international travel includes many cities in Africa, India, Italy and Switzerland and a private audience with the Pope in Rome. TIME, I invite your reporter back to the campaign trail to discuss the solutions to the challenges Baltimore will be facing in the next millennium. The citizens of Baltimore deserve more information than you provided in your article. (THE REV.) JESSICA DAVIS Baltimore...
...biotech companies such as Monsanto, based in the U.S., and Novartis AG, based in Switzerland, the rise of GM technology has meant boom times. Sales of GM seeds rose in value from $75 million in 1995 to $1.5 billion last year, and the crops they produce are turning up not only on produce shelves but also in processed foods from cookies to potato chips to baby food...
...disarmament, it should be acknowledged that gun control is one of those issues that are simultaneously both simpler and more complicated than it appears. Advocates usually point to Britain, Australia and Japan as their models, where guns are restricted and crime is reduced. They do not point to Switzerland, where there is a gun in every home and crime is practically nonexistent. Nor do they cite as sources criminology professor Gary Kleck of Florida State University, whose studies have shown that gun ownership reduces crime when gun owners defend themselves, or Professor John R. Lott Jr. of the University...
Billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted for wire fraud, racketeering and trading with the enemy by allegedly buying oil from Iran. He now resides in a villa near Lucerne with a private harbor and a steel-gated boathouse...