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  • The minority French-speaking canton of Jura was carved out from the German canton of Bern, though Jurans represented only 7% of the canton of Bern's population.

    Swiss Direct Democracy: Good; Now What About California's? Reuven Brenner 2010

  • Bern's net holdings increased 36% in August to $147.5 billion.

    Foreign Investors Boost U.S. Treasury Holdings—Except China Ian Talley 2011

  • In the wake of Bern's order to freeze Egyptian, Tunisian and Libyan money, Finma examined whether the 20 Swiss banks that held such funds had complied with rules regulating the treatment of accounts held by foreign public officials.

    Swiss Banks Face Sanctions Deborah Ball 2011

  • Moammar Gadhafi, marking Bern's fourth such freeze in the last month involving assets that may belong to African and Middle Eastern leaders.

    Swiss Freeze Gadhafi's Assets Deborah Ball 2011

  • Bern's argument gained an unexpected boost from the harrowing tales of radiation spewed by the Fukushima plant.

    Swiss Renew Push for Bomb Shelters Deborah Ball 2011

  • The banking lobby has protested the government's orders to freeze assets this year and is pushing for limits on Bern's power to do so in the future.

    Swiss Banks Face Sanctions Deborah Ball 2011

  • Losting had apparently learned of Bern's return and his offer of the grazer pelt, for he glared with more venom than usual across the fire at him.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • Sand, who had never been a big man-perhaps about Bern's size-now, shrunken and bent with age, appeared even smaller.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • An excellent sample of the present show, which one can only hope unfurls into a longer tour, can be found on Bern's latest release, Dan Bern Live in Los Angeles.

    James Campion: Living Songbook on Parade 2010

  • One evening when a Swiss friend came to visit, he started speaking about his home town of Bern's collection of Wolfli's works and how his psychiatrist father had studied them.

    Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Art Brut Goes Mainstream 2009

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