Word: switzerland
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...have to go to Zurich. Four years ago the 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, who lives in Cambridge, England, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The disease was successfully treated with chemotherapy and surgery, "but if it returns and can no longer be cured, I am determined to go to Switzerland," Eckstein says. "I don't want to suffer needlessly." Eckstein would not be traveling to Zurich to see its famous Bahnhofstrasse. He would be part of a small but growing number of non-Swiss known grimly as "death tourists," terminally ill people who come to Zurich to take their...
...worth $3.8 billion. The NanoMuscle, which costs less than $1 to make, qualifies as nanotech, the company says, because of the size of its nitinol crystals, not the wire or motion. MacGregor compares his product to $40-to-$100 small motors made by potential competitor RMB, of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland. Hasbro, a major investor in MacGregor's start-up, expects to deliver its first nano-powered toys by Christmas 2003. NanoMuscle's challenge, like InMat's, will be to stay afloat long enough to sign companies on as clients...
When Nestle and CEO Brabeck-Letmathe, 57, get hungry, they crunch on companies. Over the past 20 months, Nestle, based in Vevey, Switzerland, has bought five food entities worth more than $16.5 billion. Aggressive U.S. expansion helped first-half profits rise 79%. Next up: a possible $12 billion joint bid with Cadbury Schweppes for Hershey Foods...
...share in 1991, is taking it back for $3.87 Chocolate War Truce Activists in Pennsylvania pulled off a surprise coup as the Hershey Trust gave in to local opposition and stopped the sale of the confectioner, despite a bid by Wrigley of $12.5 billion. Discredited Swiss Switzerland's bank secrecy can't hide the problems at Credit Suisse. After shares fell 50% this year, CEO Lukas M?hlemann was forced out, to be succeeded by John Mack and Oswald Gr?bel. Lingering Illness Asbestos suits continue to hit Europe's insurers, as Germany's Allianz paid out $750 million to cover...
...Papon avoided judgment until 1998 - but even then was convicted for illegal arrests and detention in connection with the Holocaust, rather than murder. Papon claimed his innocence with an open disdain for accusers and judges alike. Free on appeal in 1999, he bolted - but ventured no farther than Switzerland, where he was arrested in the exile of a Gstaad hotel. The French legal system finally put him in jail; now it has sprung him after he served barely a third of his 10-year sentence. Medical experts solicited by his lawyers said age and illness had left the 92-year...