Word: amsterdams
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...true God they all believe in? The search for peace through Abraham will lead only along the path we have already traveled--to disagreements, discord and strife. The sole solution is for people of the three faiths to live together as children of God. George J. Steele Amsterdam...
DIED. CLAUS VON AMSBERG, 76, popular German-born Dutch prince and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam. Once vilified for his brief involvement with Hitler Youth as a teenager, he changed public opinion by denouncing Nazism, learning Dutch and working to preserve environmental resources...
...traveled from Amsterdam to represent the Nereus Rowing Club at the competition. His group took first place in the Men’s Club Eights after a third-place finish last year...
...days before the Sept. 2000 grand opening of a replica of Amsterdam's railway station at his Holland Village property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work...
...International Court of Justice. In various stages of construction are vacation villas, apartment towers, shopping districts and a theme park. But the project, which Yang has reportedly invested about $220 million in, appears to have run out of steam. A wide avenue is lined with half-finished copies of Amsterdam canal houses, hollow shells already showing signs of wear. A few workers trundle down the street pulling wheelbarrows, but otherwise the place is deserted. Red-brick housing blocks hold 1,400 apartments?all vacant. Liu Ping of the Netherlands Business Support Office in Shenyang says: "A lot of people wonder...