Word: amsterdams
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...vehicle in the back lot of a five-star hotel, size me up carefully and make their offer: I can sample some high-grade cocaine, and then buy 7 kg for about $78,000 - roughly one-quarter of what I can sell it for on the streets of London, Amsterdam or elsewhere in Europe. It has taken me - a stranger in town - just one afternoon to locate a sizable drug deal...
During the dotcom crash, few Web banks survived, but ING Direct persevered. "When we were making all those big investments without too much return, I had to answer a lot of questions," says Michel Tilmant, who chairs the executive board of parent company ING in Amsterdam. But ING was committed to Kuhlmann and the ING Direct vision and spent the money to continue...
...Amro Amsterdam...
From the outside, the place is unexceptional?a barn conversion set against a typically flat and watery Dutch landscape in Monnickendam, a town about 20 minutes outside Amsterdam. That is exactly what makes the interior of Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques a greater surprise. For within, there's a roaring fire in the grate, stags' heads hung on the walls, a vast dining-room table set with fine silverware and a mass of etched-glass ship's decanters on the handsome sideboard. In the kitchen are stacks of exquisite porcelain and a little gathering of tiny figures, each designed to hold toothpicks...
...open this summer, followed by others in Luton, England, and Budapest. EasyHotel has also inked a deal with Dubai's Istithmar Hotels to open another 38 in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Meanwhile, a third Yotel may open as soon as year-end at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Kuwait's IFA Hotels and Resorts, which is providing financial backing for the Yotels, "wants to expand very, very fast around the world," Woodroffe says. Clearly, the pace of change is picking up speed in the once-sleepy hospitality industry. These days, if you snooze, you lose customers...