Word: zurich
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...rental agency. There, Mrs. Seale was caught with a briefcase containing some extraordinary items: three .38-cal. bullets and a 1985 directory of home addresses for Exxon executives. A search of the house where the Seales had been staying turned up the scribbled phone numbers of banks in Zurich and Karachi, and a book on money laundering. Former Exxon security guard Seale and his wife, both 45, face life in prison if convicted. Investigators last Saturday discovered a body in the New Jersey Pine Barrens suspected to be Reso...
...Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade to keep from losing yet another homegrown industry: futures trading. U.S. exchanges developed modern-day futures, including popular contracts based on Treasury bonds and the Eurodollar. By the late 1980s, however, copycat exchanges from Auckland to Zurich were able to establish their own futures markets by trading when Chicago was closed for the day. Last year the U.S. share of the worldwide futures business had slipped to about 50%, compared with more than...
...Chicago exchanges are betting that foreign traders will flock back to the U.S. through Globex. So far, the London and Paris exchanges have signed up to use the system; the Tokyo, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Zurich exchanges are expected to follow suit. Says Globex chairman Leo Melamed: "This is a way to extend our market around the globe across all borders and time zones...
...program worked: by early this year, the incidence of new AIDS cases had dropped from 50% to 5%. (Overall, 20% of Zurich's addicts have tested HIV positive.) Trouble was, the Platzspitz also became a magnet for professional dealers, especially Lebanese, Yugoslav and Turkish gangs that overran small dealers in a violent price...
Amid complaints of rising crime, Zurich officials last week shut down Needle Park for good. Some users clustered around the central train station, others headed off in search of methadone. With sales suddenly back underground, addicts complained that the price of heroin had doubled overnight to $214 a gram. Healthworkers said efforts to prevent AIDS would be much more difficult...