Word: dutchness
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REASONS TO GO DUTCH...
...expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and Chevron and independents such as New York-based Amerada Hess. American firms have been particularly aggressive in wooing new producing countries like Equatorial Guinea and can tap their experience in deep water...
...agenda is the financing of the European Union's enlargement. The Netherlands has been the most aggressive of the so-called Gang of Four, pressing alongside Germany, Sweden and the U.K. for radical reform of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). After the Germans and the British, the Dutch are the largest net contributors to the program. The government wants to make enlargement conditional on reform of cap, an idea that is anathema to France, the biggest beneficiary of the Union's agricultural subsidies. "It's out of the question to change the cap while citing new entrants...
...work recovering art that had been stolen by the Nazis, Hammond received the French Legion of Honor Award and was honored by the Italian and the Dutch governments...
...Yang's acquaintances and local business people in Shenyang if they are surprised by his current woes, and the answer is an emphatic "No." The cause of his fall, they claim, is most likely Holland Village, his 220-hectare re-creation of a Dutch city on the outskirts of Shenyang. Yang, who carries a Dutch passport, got hooked on Holland while studying at Leiden University there. The partly-finished development looks like a dystopian Disney World. Within its gates, which are flanked by massive golden lions, are the offices of Yang's local empire, some of which are housed...