Word: liechtenstein
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...saying such words as "biathlon" again, and talking of Nordic skiing and the luge. A foreign language for Americans, who in a sense return to the Old World on these occasions, or a dream version of that world, to European movie kingdoms where athletes really do come from Liechtenstein. For 1984: Sarajevo. (Henceforth no schoolchild will be stumped on that
...arresting uncertainty every four years is not whether a pickup team of U.S. hockey players can confound the world by winning again, or even whether the Olympic committee can exceed its previous stuffiness in the matter of amateurism (it can: two champion skiers, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark and Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel, were ruled out of this Olympics for accepting their loot too directly). No, what is fascinating is to learn whether the harried and exasperated hosts, driven googly by the problems of cosseting tens of thousands of athletes and their keepers and watchers in a region where even lichen...
...comprise the great Caucasian family of white peoples ...") Fodor's is especially trustworthy on hotels and restaurants. A knowledgeable, well-organized, basically middle-class peregrination through 33 European countries, colonies and principalities that leaves no worthy stones unturned, even if they are in Albania, Gibraltar or Liechtenstein...
...feels great," said McKinney. "I was a little nervous about the race today. I just let the skis run." When Switzerland's Erika Hess, the defending champion, fell at a gate last week, McKinney moved up from third place, past Hess and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein. Then, summoning what she called "the best ski days of my career," Tamara won two giant slaloms in Waterville Valley, N.H., her fourth and fifth victories of the winter. "I took some chances," she said, "and just...
Nonetheless, some banking experts maintain that the agreement will not deter insider trading, but merely force the illegal transactions to be conducted in other banking havens, such as Liechtenstein, Panama or the Caribbean. Says Paul Erdman, a bestselling financial novelist (The Crash of 79, The Last Days of America), who spent ten months in jail for violating Swiss financial laws: "Insider trading will just have to be done a little more cleverly...