Word: bernhard
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...said Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the multimillionaire inventor of dynamite, six years before his death at 63 in 1896 and eleven years before the inauguration of what has become the world's most honorific-and occasionally quixotic-award. Since 1901 a five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed gold medals bearing the motto Pro Pace et Fraternitate Gentium (For Peace and Brotherhood of Nations) and cash awards ranging from $30,000 to $173,700 to 59 men, five women and eleven organizations. Nineteen times the committee made no awards at all - of ten because of wars more terrible than even...
...TIMES Arms Bazaar may seem to be a conspiracy book. Business and political figures from Herbert Kalmbach to Prince Bernhard of Holland are involved in one way or another. But Sampson is not paranoid, merely thorough. The arms trade, with its manufacturers so dependent on large-sale, precarious government contracts, is one of the most lucrative and integral to the western world...
What is so depressing the market? The biggest reason for the long price stagnation is probably psychological. In the mid-'60s, people widely-and wrongly-believed that Keynesian economics had given governments the tools to control inflation and recession and keep business rising constantly. Recalls Arnold Bernhard, president of the Value Line Funds: "In the '60s stocks were bought on the assumption that growth would go on for ever." The economy of the '70s has been dominated by inflation, recession and fears of energy shortages, all adding up to that worst of stock market poisons-uncertainty. Complains...
...million bank loan, and ever since has been in almost continuous negotiation with its bankers to arrange credit. The company's reputation was almost ruined by disclosure that up to $38 million in questionable foreign payments was made to spur sales of its aircraft; the scandal involved Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan, among others. To top it all, Lockheed's effort to re-establish itself as a principal supplier of commercial aircraft has been a disaster...
...this operation from his superiors in Zurich. Whenever bank auditors visited the Chiasso branch, the books that recorded Kuhrmeier's Texon dealings and other incriminating papers were spirited through a private doorway into a collaborating law firm next door. Crédit Suisse's Chiasso branch, says Bernhard Miiller, director of the Swiss Banking Commission, "was a bank within a bank...