Those legendary numbered bank accounts from Bern, Switzerland to Zurich still exist but with an asterisk.
Cardiff came ahead of Bern in Switzerland, Manama in Bahrain and Blantyre in Malawi.
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Turkey and Armenia are expected soon to sign an agreement, after months of Swiss-sponsored talks in Bern.
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Last year the top ten cities were Zurich, Geneva, Vancouver, Vienna, Auckland, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Bern and Sydney.
The race ends in Bern next Sunday with a 30-km individual time trial.
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Then a cache of 200 weapons that he had collected was uncovered in a warehouse near Bern, the capital.
Even clients of Bern's heroin clinic think this is a step too far.
Vasella grew up to become a doctor, taking a hospital post in Bern, but by his mid-30s he was restless.
The study--funded with public money, not by a pharmaceutical company--was presented by Stephan Windecker from the University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland.
In July, 64, 000 Swatch Access watches functioned as tickets to the opening events of the new Swiss national football stadium in Bern.
On 5 July 2010, the Swiss Federation for Adult Learning (SVEB) held a meeting in Bern, Switzerland, to discuss the follow-up to CONFINTEA VI.
Bronfman remembers a meeting with Swiss banks in 1995 in Bern.
It turns out that Weyerhaeuser owned timberland in New Bern, N.
Then came SIRTAX, a study by presented by Stephen Windecker of the University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland, at the March annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
The Coast Guard said it had searched over 560 square miles of the Atlantic before suspending the search for Walter and Steven Tate, both of New Bern, N.
She is co-director of The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement.
After their night of exhilarating car racing, Bond and di Vicenzo share an intimate moment in a secluded barn nearby, filmed in Winteregg, also in the canton of Bern.
Others included Guan Yi, a wealthy Beijing-based collector, and Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman and former ambassador to China, whose collection of contemporary Chinese art is now on show in Bern.
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"Usually when you cave in to the USA, you do it because you just want to get rid of it, " said Dr Peter V Kunz, an economic law professor at the University of Bern.
It was not until 2001, however, that Manfred Milinski and Claus Wedekind of the University of Bern wondered whether there was a correlation between the perfume a woman preferred and her own natural scent.
Developed by the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern in Switzerland and Swiss software company, Texetera, the Jungfrau Climate Guide is an interactive guide to glaciers and climate change.
Switzerland's previous radical experiment with drugs when the police turned a blind eye to open-air drug markets in Zurich and Bern ended in chaos in 1995 when the places became the haunts of drug users and pushers from across Europe.
Though both Germany and China have signed the Bern Convention, which in theory extends U.S.-style copyright protections to those countries, suing abroad is a costly and time-consuming process, says Gregory Rutchik, head of the Arts and Technology Law Group.
Current methods for detecting disease in livestock are slow and open to abuse, because they rely upon farmers or vets reporting sick animals, says Marcus Doherr of the Institute of Animal Neurology at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes, in the Swiss capital of Bern, says the case is certain to call into question Switzerland's relatively liberal gun laws, under which Swiss men, all of whom must serve in the army, keep their guns at home.
"The atmosphere at the Coliseum reminded me of games in Switzerland, " said Streit, whose hometown team SC Bern for which he and Islanders leading scorer John Tavares played during this season's NHL lockout won the Swiss elite league championship on Tuesday.
An article in this month's Journal of Financial Economics by Mr Karolyi, Warren Bailey, of Cornell University, and Carolina Salva, of the University of Bern, suggests that once foreign companies list in America, their share prices are more volatile at the time of earnings announcements.
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The problem has long been recognized, and the aforementioned Habitats Directive -- a corollary of the 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats -- introduced a range of measures aimed at protecting endangered species (including plants, birds and fish as well as mammals).
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