Word: liechtensteiner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...became Banco Ambrosiano Holding. The advantage of a foreign subsidiary: it is not subject to Italy's banking regulations. Calvi's next moves were to use the Luxembourg holding company to set up banks in Switzerland, the Bahamas, Peru and Nicaragua, and companies in Panama, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein...
...Ambrosiano and its subsidiaries, in an attempt to strengthen his grip on the parent bank. During 1978-79 and in 1981, Ambrosiano and its subsidiaries raised about $1.2 billion. In these years the banks lent at least $800 million to low-capitalized shell companies in Panama, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. The shell companies, in turn, used about $400 million to buy stock in Banco Ambrosiano and other securities. All or part of yet another $400 million appears to have been funneled through these same companies to finance South American deals. By June 1982 the shell companies owed Banco Ambrosiano banks about...
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...