Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lacayo's wife Cristiana is president. During a two-hour interview, Lacayo bristled at the suggestion that he and his family wield inordinate power. "We are still in an emergency," he says. "To compare the form of government we have in Nicaragua with the U.S., or Costa Rica, or Switzerland, which have traditions of democracy, is infantile...
...since Hubbard's death in 1986. In a court filing, one of the cult's many entities - the Church of Spiritual Technology - listed $503 million in income just for 1987. High-level defectors say the parent organization has squirreled away an estimated $400 million in bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus. Scientology probably has about 50,000 active members, far fewer than the 8 million the group claims. But in one sense, that inflated figure rings true: millions of people have been affected in one way or another by Hubbard's bizarre creation...
Their daughter Marilyn, born in 1939, studied in Switzerland and married the son of a wealthy Chinese textile manufacturer. Called a jet setter by Algonans, she, along with her three children, spent time in Geneva, Hong Kong and Honolulu. It was gossiped that she shared Sophia Loren's gynecologist...
...huge, random anthology of the achievements of German Expressionism. Everything came from German museums, since the idea was to show how the official public culture of Germany had been infiltrated by Modernism. At the end of the show, whatever seemed salable was auctioned by the Fischer Gallery in Switzerland. Minor or unsalable works were destroyed. The whole affair was an elaborate purification rite, art's equivalent to book burning...
...policy against political paraphernalia. Said he: "I believe the display of yellow ribbons should not be viewed as a political statement but rather as a symbol that we remember the men and women serving in the Persian Gulf." Even at Disney World, whose efficiency and neutrality rival those of Switzerland, the strict dress code has been modified to allow those among its 32,000 employees who do not deal directly with the public to wear yellow ribbons...