Word: switzerland
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...treaty to combat climate change be weakened, and the White House is refusing to sign the pact to protect endangered plants and animals. But most other nations came ready for action. India, often a holdout in environmental negotiations, agreed to the climate-change treaty, and three countries -- Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands -- pushed for tougher curbs on the gases that may cause global warming...
Sadly, Cuban cigars fell victim over the years to socialist mismanagement. The island's wrapping handicraft declined, and its tobacco fields produced inferior leaf because they were no longer properly fertilized or allowed sufficient time to lay fallow. So uneven is the yield that two years ago, Switzerland's Davidoff company, which profited handsomely for decades from Fidel Castro's crop, pulled up its Cuban stakes...
With so many suitors, the newly independent states have been wary of making geopolitical commitments. Askar Akayev, President of Kyrgyzstan, wants his country to be "politically like Switzerland, but in the heart of Asia." Foreign Minister Abdu Kuliyev believes Turkmenistan should be "neither Islamic nor Soviet but a secular, democratic state." President Nursultan * Nazarbayev thinks Kazakhstan, which stretches from the Volga region of Russia to the western borders of China, should be a bridge between Europe and Asia. Says he: "We want to enter the democratic world like any other state...
...likes to hear it or not, it ((German)) is now the most widely spoken language in the E.C." While that may be a slight exaggeration, what the Germans call their Sprachraum (linguistic space) does include more than 100 million people in Germany and in potential E.C. members Austria and Switzerland, plus millions more in Eastern Europe whose main second language is German...
...class citizenship, many naively clung to the belief that "it can't happen here." Ettore Ovazza of Turin, leader of the country's Jewish Fascists, remained a true believer until the very end -- perhaps even as he was shot dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist spy; he had once lectured successfully in Warsaw, and his name, curiously, lives on as a Polish slang term for something suspect or obscene...