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...Zurich's gnomes campaign to keep money matters private...
...order to campaign against the resolution, the well-known gnomes of Zurich were forced to forgo their normally reclusive ways. At endless town and village meetings, they argued that passage would seriously threaten Switzerland's position as the world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...
Bringing the flame to Zurich and Geneva makes more than just political sense. The economic burden of the Games can be tremendous, Host city Montreal, for example, lost a bundle in 1976 and almost did not complete construction of its stadium in time for the opening ceremonies. Although local business thrives during an Olympiad, the host's tax coffers are rapidly depleted. If the site of the Games were made permanent, the initial expenditure would be offset by a lack of building requirements for all subsequent Olympiads. The initial construction costs themselves might be spread out, and assumed...
...favorite mistress of the moment, senses a change: "Showing through the outline of Tomás the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover." Then it is 1968, a time of more violent change for the entire country. Tomás and Tereza emigrate to Zurich, where he has been promised a job in a prominent hospital. Sabina goes to Geneva and falls into a love affair with Franz, an unhappily married professor. It is her fate to shuck off the past: parents, the precepts of her Communist Youth League childhood and, in turn, all of her lovers: "What...