Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure enough, last week Christine Toomey of the Sunday Times of London wailed, "America has flung itself again into one of the spasms of passionate moral debate that nations more tolerant of human frailty find so hard to understand." In Switzerland the Basler Zeitung concluded that "the most American aspect of the affair" was that "behind the thin dam of wordy morality, puritanical shyness and 'ethics' swirls a sea of corruption, madness and wickedness...
...Royal Swedish Academy yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Richard R. Ernst of Switzerland and the Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes of France...
...failed to respond to North's mention of his Swiss bank accounts. He said, "[I]t was interesting, it was thought-provoking, intriguing, but not something you stopped and dwelled on...." In other words, what's so strange about having Swiss bank accounts? I do all my banking in Switzerland...
...knows. Are the Russians going to emerge eventually in a political landscape that looks like Switzerland -- different languages and nationalities coexisting under a government organized to make decisions at the most democratic level possible? Or like Lebanon at its savage worst? Or like someplace that no one has ever seen before...
...call for "the release of all detainees around the world," if serious, may bring at least seven other European countries into the negotiations. Five Arab terrorists are held in Britain, two in France, two in Greece, five in Italy, three in Spain, three in Sweden and one in Switzerland. Most of these men have been convicted of crimes; the others are awaiting trial for acts ranging from the importation of explosives to the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Perez de Cuellar signaled that the release of any of these prisoners would not be considered; he called them...