Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a recent whirl of travel that included a speech in Las Vegas and a meeting in Switzerland, Gates detoured to a secluded resort in New York's Adirondacks to spend a weekend with Melinda and Jennifer. There they played with 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles from a craftsman in Vermont who makes them for customers like Gates. Melinda has helped broaden her husband. Instead of studying biotechnology together, they find time to take singing lessons...
...that ordinary Germans, and not just Nazis, were responsible for the Holocaust--has sparked a furious debate in Germany and around the world since it was published last March. The work has spent seven weeks as the best-selling book in Germany, and has topped sales charts in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium as well...
...same time, non-American firms like Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland and Britain's NatWest are trying to muscle in on the gold mine by hiring away some of the hottest prospectors. Deutsche Bank lured investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners...
...years since then, JB Oxford has expanded aggressively, hiring dozens of stockbrokers and opening branch offices in New York City, Boston, Miami, Dallas and Basel, Switzerland. Customers have been solicited through television commercials on cnbc in the U.S. and nbc Super Channel, an English-language cable channel in Europe. An Asian marketing group runs ads in Japanese, Chinese and Korean newspapers in California, and there are plans to open offices in Hong Kong and Taipei. Oxford has also plunged into cyberspace with its own Internet site, enabling investors to trade online...
...card is presumed to be a signal from Nicholson to his Russian handlers that he wanted a meeting in Switzerland earlier than previously scheduled. Seasoned spies say Nicholson's method is almost quaint. An up-to-the-minute agent today would have cellular phones and portable computer linkups. "Nobody would use those techniques today unless you were an awful agent or cutting corners like hell," says David Whipple, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers...