Word: switzerland
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...investment bank. She and her brother and sister attended private schools, and the family traveled to the great European resorts for bathing in the summer and skiing in the winter. To ensure the family's future in uncertain times, Jozef Sapir regularly deposited his profits in banks in Switzerland, $30,000 to $40,000 at a time. "He trusted them absolutely," she says. "It's funny. He was able to protect his money from the Nazis, but not from the Swiss...
...says Steinberg, "they have been telling us, 'We can't give you any money because you have no records.' Now if they say we still can't have it, the implications are monstrous. After all, this is their list, not ours." Jewish organizations in Europe and the U.S. believe Switzerland's vaults still hold prewar deposits that, with a half-century of interest, could be worth $3 billion to $7 billion today. Even if the claim is too high--as it probably is--many millions of dollars are involved. Beyond that, newly invigorated probers have been digging into all aspects...
...look at records in Switzerland, the joint U.S.-Swiss commission, headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, is hiring several Swiss accounting firms to go into the banks and check their accounts, while preserving the secrecy the Swiss take such pride in. Though the committee's accountants have been pledged the bank's full access, it is doubtful they will come up with much. The investigators will be permitted to look only at dormant accounts, that is, those in which there has been no activity and no communication with the owners. Earlier this year the Swiss Bankers Association...
...study was conducted by Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan and Marcel R. Zentner, who was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard last year and is now at the Institute of Psychology in Geneva, Switzerland...
...little Martina was playing outdoors, and at five she was playing in tournaments. She spent her first eight years in what is now Slovakia, and after her parents' divorce and her mother Melanie's subsequent marriage to a Swiss computer executive, she moved to Trubbach, Switzerland. Her adopted home has naturally led to her being called Heidi, but Heidi did not sign a five-year deal with the all-powerful International Management Group when...