The head of IOR from 1971 to 1989, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was under consideration for indictment in 1982 in Italy as an accessory of the bankruptcy ; however, he was never brought to trial due to the Italian courts ' ruling that the priest, being a high-ranking prelate of the Vatican, had diplomatic immunity from prosecution.

By the 1990s, the IOR had invested over US $ 10 billion in foreign companies.

On October 21, 1946, a Top Secret report from US Treasury Agent Emerson Bigelow ( called " The Bigelow Report "), which was declassified in 1997, quoted a " reliable source in Italy " ( who corroborated evidence already obtained by CIC intelligence officials of the Army ), who alerted his superior that Croatian officials had sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs ( CHF ) to the IOR " for safekeeping ", a sum largely in the form of gold coins.

The IOR had allegedly failed to disclose the origin of the money, a violation of Italian law.

On Thursday, December 30, 2010, the Catholic News Service homepage reported that Pope Benedict XVI had issued an Apostolic Letter that established the Financial Information Authority as an independent agency to oversee the monetary and commercial activities of all Vatican-related institutions, including the IOR.

While some IOR yachts race at club level under IRC in more or less their original form, others had major surgery to make them competitive within the new rules.

This developed into the situation about 1977 when the boats winning in most smaller IOR categories ( up to the half tonners-about 10m LOA ) had all internal ballast, often with an unballasted daggerboard.

The IOR rule was also used to define level rating classes, where each class had a maximum IOR rating, and the first boat to finish was the winner, with no handicapping.

Towards the end of its life the IOR had become a stable rule, but by then it had a reputation of changing too often, and this sowed the seeds for its successors.

The term maxi originated with the International Offshore Rule ( IOR ) rating system, which in the 1970s and 1980s measured offshore racing yachts and applied a single-number rating to each boat.

The IOR Maxis were generally long overall, and raced boat-for-boat without handicap, unlike the rest of the IOR fleet which raced with a time correction factor depending on the boat's rating.

The measurements and penalties were used to compute the handicap number, called an IOR rating, in feet.

( The choice of download or IIOP protocols is embedded in the object's IOR, so the means of access is transparent to the client application.

* IOR yacht conversions

It was designed by Bruce Kirby, for the Clark Boat Company to the early 70's IOR standards.

In terms of numbers his second most successful design was the San Juan 24, an IOR Quarter Tonner, which was built in Seattle and North Carolina, and about 1, 200 of which were produced.

After its descendant, the mathematically complex International Offshore Rule ( IOR ) of the 1970s, contributed to much decreased seaworthiness ( and even speed ), the simpler Performance Handicap Racing Fleet ( PHRF ) system was adopted.

It was later combined with the RORC ( Royal Ocean Racing Club ) rule to become the IOR ( International Offshore Rule ) rule in the late 50s which was used to handicap international racing until the late 1980s.

Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the IOR from 1971 to 1989, was indicted in Italy in 1982 as an accessory in the $ 3. 5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, one of the major post-war financial scandals.

According to a 1998 report issued by the US State Department, the Independent State of Croatia treasury was illicitly transferred to the IOR and several banks after the end of World War II.

In 2009, the Italian magazine Panorama reported that IOR was being investigated by Italian authorities from the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Banca d ' Italia and the Guardia di Finanza over money laundering transactions worth € 180 million ( US $ 218 million ) through a branch of UniCredit located at Via della Conciliazione across from St. Peter's Basilica.

Police began an investigation regarding Tedeschi around a week before the news was made public after a division of the Bank of Italy alerted police to two transactions involving the IOR that were deemed suspicious.

The Independent Order of Rechabites ( IOR ) was a Friendly Society founded in England in 1835 as part of the wider British temperance movement to promote total abstinence from alcoholic beverages.

The initials " IOR " on a tombstone may indicate that the deceased was a member of the organisation.

The International Offshore Rule ( IOR ) was introduced in 1973, and the yachts and crews began taking sponsorships.

The International Offshore Rule ( IOR ) was a measurement rule for racing sailboats.

The IOR was superseded ( in the early 1990s ) by the International Measurement System ( IMS ) and CHS ( since renamed IRC ).

In a handicap race, the IOR length was used to compute a time allowance.

The IOR was run by the ITC, or International Technical Committee, of the Offshore Racing Congress, chaired between 1979 and 1987 by the late Gary Mull of San Francisco .. As with all published handicapping formulae, there was an ongoing game between the designers finding ways of designing boats that took advantage of shortcomings in the measurement system and handicapping formulae, and the rule makers closing the loopholes to ensure fair racing and a reasonable competitive life for the boats.

The Vatican also conducts worldwide financial activities, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione ( also known with the acronym IOR and wrongly known as the Vatican Bank ).

The Institute for Works of Religion ( – IOR ), commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a privately held institute located inside Vatican City run by a CEO who reports directly to a committee of cardinals, and ultimately to the Pope ( or the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church during a sede vacante ).

# IOR interceptors mediate the creation of the new references to the remote objects, presented by the current server.

The purpose of these is to provide a human readable and editable way to specify a location where an IOR can be obtained.

According to the norms of its present statutes, which came into effect in 1990, the IOR is directed by a supervisory council and by an oversight commission of cardinals.

On 21 September 2010, Italian police declared that Gotti Tedeschi and another IOR manager were under investigation for money laundering charges.

Both the origin and destination of the funds were accounts under the control of the IOR.

The 1990 film The Godfather, Part III featured machinations in the IOR based on the Banco Ambrosiano scandal as a central element in one of its more conspiracy-oriented plotlines.

An Interoperable Object Reference ( IOR ) is a CORBA or RMI-IIOP reference that uniquely identified an object on a remote CORBA server.

The internal structure of an IOR may contain multiple components.

The upper part of his packet had stained dark.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

In even greater degree the same rule applied to the remainder of Eastern Europe, where the upper classes had generally collaborated with the Nazis, even to the extent of sending millions of their peasants into Russia as a part of Hitler's armies.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

The Egyptians eventually withdrew from the region after failing to gain the upper hand over the Hittites, and becoming wary of the power of Assyria, which had destroyed the Mitanni Empire.

His rallies and lectures attracted thousands of listeners in the early 30s, mainly in the upper Midwest, but by the late 30s the crowds had dwindled.

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

She was a beautiful and reputable woman and according to Pliny the Elder, she had a double canine in her upper right jaw, a sign of good fortune.

Further, Alexander observed that many individuals commonly tightened the musculature of the upper torso as he had done, in anticipation of many other activities besides speech.

The full typical series of 44 teeth was developed in each, but whereas in the Periptychidae, the upper molars were bunodont and tritubercular, in the Pantolambdidae, they had assumed a selenodont structure.

When the Universe was very young, it was likely infused with dark energy, but with less space and everything closer together, gravity had the upper hand, and it was slowly braking the expansion.

When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.

By 1943, the Partisan resistance movement had gained the upper hand, against the odds, and in 1945, with help from the Soviet Red Army ( passing only through small parts such as Vojvodina ), expelled the Axis forces and local supporters.

The Casiquiare is not a sluggish canal on a flat tableland, but a great, rapid river which, if its upper waters had not found contact with the Orinoco, perhaps by cutting back, would belong entirely to the Negro branch of the Amazon.

The Nationalists initially had superiority in arms and men, but their lack of popularity, infiltration by Communist agents, low morale, and disorganization soon allowed the Communists to gain the upper hand in the civil war.

The upper castes had special privileges and a separate legal code.

Along with the three or four estates in various European countries, another outcast layer existed below the bottom layer of the hierarchical society, a layer that had no rights and was there to serve the upper layers.

In modern times, regions of Europe had untouchables in addition to the upper castes and serfs.

Known as the bards caste, they and other upper castes had privileges that they inherited by birth.

With tools such as cartography, shipbuilding, navigation, mining and agricultural productivity colonisers had an upper hand.

By the early 18th century, the custom had become common in towns of the upper Rhineland, but it had not yet spread to rural areas.