The brand already has proven a lot and now stands as a permanent fixture in the world of Swiss watchmaking, particularly with the chronograph models that is its specialty.
Compact and cohesive electorates, such as in a Swiss canton, are unusually good places for such votes to work: voters are more likely to ponder the issues fully beforehand, and to deal maturely with the result afterwards.
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It lost 1.9bn Swiss francs in the last quarter of 2012, and 2.2bn Swiss francs for the year as a whole.
With Portugal already through to the quarterfinals as Group A winners, and the Swiss eliminated after two defeats, neither team had anything apart from pride to play for.
By contrast, safe-haven currencies such as the yen and Swiss franc rocketed, while gold also benefited from a flight from riskier assets such as stocks, oil and industrial metals.
For years, dietetic candy tasted as though it had been designed as a torture device by the Swiss Chocolate Police: dry, dull and about as exciting as chewing on bark.
The New York Commodities Exchange also tried and failed, as did Eurex, a German-Swiss affair.
Sounds straightforward enough, though most analysts and regulators are scratching their heads as to how a Swiss company that no one had heard of until this week intends to unseat the management of Euro Disney, and also make the park more profitabile.
The journey northwest to Lake Lucerne involves three trains and a paddle steamer in a single afternoon, each one running on a schedule as precise as Swiss clockwork.
And he cannot be simply dismissed as a crackpot: Huber served on the board of directors of a Swiss bank and holding company that President Bush accused of helping fund al Qaeda.
Minarets were shown as a menacing force: on posters, dark shapes (resembling both minarets and missiles) rose from a Swiss flag.
Haas has twice lost to Federer in semifinals at Halle, in 2005 and 2006 as the Swiss won the title four years in a row.
The platform is a result of a collaboration between the Swiss and German institutes, as well as the University of Rome, the Institute of Applied Mechanics and the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, in Munich.
Some people treat the drive up the winding roads that lead north, to the nearby Swiss border and Alpine end of Lake Como, as a further exercise in gawping.
To the detriment of investors and traders who had been piling into the franc as a haven, the Swiss National Bank came down like a hammer to weaken the value of the franc.
In partial data for 2010 (only through the first quarter) dollar flows were near zero and euro flows were substantial as the Swiss, in particular, acquired a large amount of euro reserves (to lean against the record level of the franc versus the euro).
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Apart from a handful of Austrians and Swiss (whom few Germans regard as proper foreigners), non-Germans in the boardroom are still an extreme rarity.
Meanwhile, the banking commission is less worried by Credit Suisse than by conglomerates with a heavier insurance component, such as Zurich Financial Services and Swiss Life, both of which own Swiss banks.
As befits a Swiss bank, UBP keeps an ultra discreet and risk-averse profile, with liquidity exceeding regulatory requirements, but in 2008 it shocked the banking establishment when its clients emerged as major victims of swindler Bernard Madoff.
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This is due to much higher personnel expenses as a % of revenues generated from Americas as compared to Swiss and International.
She and her new husband were living in a cottage on the property known as the "Swiss Chalet, " modeled loosely on an alpine mountain house.
French actor Alain Delon is a Swiss resident as is crooner-rocker Johnny Halliday, and many other French stars and sportsmen ensure they reside for under six months in France in order to escape being taxed here on their income and capital.
And just this week CNN reported that a candidate for the Swiss Parliament is running as part of the APPP party (Anti PowerPoint Party).
Be sure to stop by the Roundhouse Lodge, at the top of Whistler mountain, to check out its Olympic Legacy display , which includes such prized memorabilia as Swiss Olympian Didier Defago's gold medal winning Rossignol skis and a wood-carved replica of the medals podium - where every athlete, no matter how skilled, can snap a photograph of a personal Olympic moment.
And true to form, the Swiss dominated from the very first game as he raced to a two-set lead within the hour.
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This loop also passes through the Sasso San Gottardo, a demilitarised tunnel that is part of a network of clandestine Swiss Army caves and tunnels built into the mountain and used as bunkers during WWII and the Cold War.
The attack coincided with an Arab League meeting that was under way inside the Green Zone, in the presence of Belgian, German and Swiss experts, to discuss the formation of an Arab parliament, as stipulated by a summit of Arab leaders held in Baghdad last year.
Others say peasants in the Swiss mountains created the dish as a way to make use of leftover bread and cheese during colder months when fresh produce was scarce.
The meeting, in the presence of Belgian, German and Swiss experts, was intended to discuss the formation of an Arab parliament, as stipulated by a summit of Arab leaders held in Baghdad last year.
It is as if two thousand or so attendees came all the way to a remote Swiss mountain resort and repeatedly passed through multiple layers of security to cast little ballots in a box.
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