Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighborhoods. A city newspaper studies a white neighborhood and a black neighborhood and finds that while both are messy, the black neighborhood is cleaner. But week in, week out, the paper runs front-page stories comparing the garbage and graffiti in the black neighborhood to the pristine loveliness of Switzerland. Anthony Lewis chips in an op-ed piece deploring, more in sadness than in anger, the irony that blacks, who for so long had degradation imposed on them, should now impose degradation on themselves...
...morning the goddam company was not there. The vastly overextended IOS had fallen victim to the bear market of 1970. So had Cornfeld, who gave up his castles in France and Switzerland, as well as his jet and Rolls-Royce. Today he is dealing real estate in Europe, his celebrated harem now "down to sort of a skeleton crew of three or four...
...schoolteacher, Lenin was expelled from school for taking part in a student protest. While idling at home, he discovered the works of Karl Marx, which prophesied the inevitable collapse of capitalism and its empires. He did finally get a law degree, but his fascination with Marxism led him to Switzerland, to an encounter with the exiled Georgi Plekhanov, the eminence grise of Russian Marxism; then to meetings with other radicals in Paris and Berlin; then, on his return home, to arrest, trial, jail and exile in Siberia. So Lenin was far away when the Social Democratic Party was born...
According to the report, Shortchanging Education, only Ireland and Australia invest less than the U.S. in basic education in terms of a percentage of gross national product. Of the 16 countries studied, Sweden spends the most (7%), followed by Austria (5.9%), Switzerland (5.8%), Norway (5.3%) and Belgium (4.9%). Denmark and Japan tied at 4.8%, while the U.S. spends only 4.1%. "If the U.S. were to increase spending for primary and secondary school up to the 'average' level found in the other 15 countries," the study says, "we would need to raise spending by over $20 billion annually...
...liquidate it is real, especially since he has not been able to keep up with the payments and Sotheby's has had to roll over its loan. Reportedly, Irises is not even in Bond's possession but has been stashed by Sotheby's in a vault somewhere, perhaps in Switzerland. A spokesman for Dallhold Investments, Bond's private company, says Bond is not actively trying to sell the painting "despite the procession of agents who keep calling." The spokesman adds, however, that "anything and everything is for sale at a price...