Word: verbruggen
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...I.O.C. appointed a 14-member commission to visit the five bid cities. The new ethics rules were scrupulously followed. No gifts, please, we're Olympic inspectors. "We paid all our own bills," said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the evaluation commission. "The bid cities bought us one meal?usually a very good meal?but that's all." Last week in Lausanne the evaluation commission issued its 108-page report. Two cities, Istanbul and Osaka, were found lacking, thus virtually killing their chances of being chosen. The commission said that both places had serious flaws in their financial plans that could...
...More ? Indeed it is, and who will finish first is far from certain. The bids of Paris, Beijing and Toronto were all rated "excellent" in the report with only minor, easily fixed deficiencies for each. It was a dead heat among them. "Excellent is excellent," said Verbruggen. "There are no degrees of excellent." But that did not stop city supporters from deconstructing the report in search of advantages. The Toronto team claimed the words excellent and strong were used more often in describing their burg than the other two cities. After the report was released Claude BEbEar, president...
...I.O.C. appointed a 14-member commission to visit the five bid cities. The new ethics rules were scrupulously followed. No gifts, please, we're Olympic inspectors. "We paid all our own bills," said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the evaluation commission. "The bid cities bought us one meal-usually a very good meal-but that's all." Last week in Lausanne the evaluation commission issued its 108-page report. Two cities, Istanbul and Osaka, were found lacking, thus virtually killing their chances of being chosen. The commission said that both places had serious flaws in their financial plans that could...
...Indeed it is, and who will finish first is far from certain. The bids of Paris, Beijing and Toronto were all rated "excellent" in the report with only minor, easily fixed deficiencies for each. It was a dead heat among them. "Excellent is excellent," said Verbruggen. "There are no degrees of excellent." But that did not stop city supporters from deconstructing the report in search of advantages. The Toronto team claimed the words excellent and strong were used more often in describing their burg than the other two cities. After the report was released Claude Bbar, president of the Paris...