Word: ghent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Textiles. Still the biggest employer on the Continent (2.9 million workers), the textile industry has suffered the most. Over the past five years, at least 3,500 enterprises have been closed and more than half a million jobs lost. In Ghent alone, home of Belgium's cotton industry, unemployment levels have reached 11%, roughly equal to those in France's eastern Vosges region. In all, a million more workers are expected to be laid...
What their diary entries would eventually uncover, however, even the nurses were not prepared for. Last week Sister Godfrida, 44, was in jail in nearby Ghent, and her neighbors in Wetteren, a quiet marketing town (pop. 25,000) in a stolid, conservative Catholic area of Belgium, were reeling from shock. The nun, a local woman whose name was Cecile Bombeek before she joined the Josephites, had been accused of stealing more than $30,000 from her elderly patients in order to support a morphine habit. Far worse, after she had been charged with theft, Sister Godfrida placidly confessed to killing...
...Sister Godfrida's peccadilloes escape the attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone -police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital-provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors...
...parlor and Pullman car service between New York City and her house near Millerton, N.Y., declined. Last year she doubled her efforts, after passenger service was stopped short of Millerton. When the Penn Central tried to end freight traffic on a 30½-mile stretch north from Millerton to Ghent, she sued...
...moving from Nuremberg to Venice, Dürer reversed a whole direction of cultural priorities. The centers to which German artists had previously looked, from their provincial isolation, were Bruges and Ghent in Flanders and the northern Gothic style shaped there by artists like the Van Eycks and Hugo van der Goes. What fascinated Dürer was Italian humanism and all that flowed from the discovery of classical antiquity. He felt that his destiny was to introduce these new ideas to the North. He had informed himself from scraps, mainly engravings after Mantegna and his imitators that he had seen...