Word: amsterdams
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...still other Alzheimer's-susceptibility genes. Rudolph Tanzi, a geneticist from Harvard, believes that he has nabbed a prime suspect on chromosome 12, a gene called A2M. But he has yet to convince his critics. Two years ago, when Tanzi presented his data at an Alzheimer's meeting in Amsterdam, his evidence was brutally attacked. "I wish I'd been wearing chain mail," he jokes. "I felt as if I'd been shot through with spears and arrows...
...turnaround actually began just before Jospin's election, but the Prime Minister deserves credit for his efforts to keep it going. After dithering over adopting the euro, the new Socialist government signed the June 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, which ensured France's participation in the single European currency and tied its destiny to the 15-member European Union. Jospin then began a steady sell-off of state companies, a move that reassured the business community and international investors. Most important, and most controversial, were the 35-hour workweek and a program that offered state-subsidized jobs to 350,000 young people...
Throughout the week, the ships will be docked and open for public boarding. Most of them will depart on Sunday, exchanging a salute with the Constitution before they begin racing to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then on to Amsterdam...
...York City dotcom--plus a meager 500 to 1,000 options. Once again, they turned out to be worthless when the site ran out of cash. As with most dotcom firings, the end was as swift as it was ignominious. News editor Jim Edwards returned from a vacation in Amsterdam to find his company had collapsed...
...model economy, with an official unemployment rate of 4%--the lowest in the E.U. except for tiny Luxembourg, at 2.8%. Its boom helped the country cut joblessness more than 50% since the early 1990s. "We're working at capacity," says Joop Hartog, professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. "We should be happy with that." An active labor policy bolsters the boom by offering tax credits for low earners, more child-care and after-school facilities to ease women's path into employment, and more intensive mentoring--or hectoring--of unemployed to get them into the work force...