Word: switzerland
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Lefevre also says Chaumet sold watches and jewelry at inflated prices to a shell company in Switzerland called Lausanne Investments; he says the sales allowed Chaumet to get poorly selling merchandise off its books without showing a loss. (Thousands of watches were later sold to dealers in the U.S. at a fraction of their inventory value, according to sources with direct knowledge of the transactions.) Chaumet's 1993 and 1994 financial statements, filed in a French commercial court, refer to the company's transactions with Lausanne but do not reveal who owned or controlled...
...barely knew Radwan and doubted he had ever spoken more than "15 words" to him. Both men, however, worked for Chase Manhattan in the Middle East in the '70s and, says Radwan, both attended management meetings. Radwan supplied Time with a photograph of himself with Kirdar taken in Switzerland...
...battle of wits, however, the drama begins to feel like a play of ideas without enough ideas. Picasso's one-liners aren't so much fireworks as kitchen matches. Martin has recklessly ventured into the country of Tom Stoppard, whose amazing Travesties (which convenes Lenin and James Joyce in Switzerland) may be seen as a rich ancestor of this poor relation...
Will another Romanov ever rule Russia? Not according to Prince Nicholas Romanov, a retired farmer living in Switzerland, who is the acknowledged head of a now bitterly divided family. "We cannot even think of it," he told Massie, even though some symbols of the czarist past, like the country's pre-Soviet flag, have been restored. Should the impossible happen, one plausible candidate for the throne is a retired U.S. Marine colonel named Paul R. Ilyinsky, the son of the late Grand Duke Dimitri, a cousin of the Czar's. Ilyinsky, however, prefers the job he already holds: mayor...
...greater credit. They should have refrained from ugly harassment and close surveillance of the participants and not restricted their speech and movement. In the future the U.N. should fully guarantee such basic rights in a host country before it is chosen as a conference site. TENZIN YANGDAK Mont Pelerin, Switzerland...