Word: hollande
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...There are many nuances in the market. Russian enamel is soft because a major American buyer is out of the market. Nineteenth century Dutch painting is off because of the prospects of a Socialist-dominated government in Holland, which has depressed demand from Dutch citizens...
Ulrich Petersen and Heinrich D. Holland...
When it comes to flying high, few businessmen can measure up to Frans Swarttouw, 49, of The Netherlands. Having built Rotterdam's containership terminal into a key operation of the world's biggest and busiest deepwater port, Swarttouw took command three years ago of Holland's weak and floundering Fokker aircraft company and promptly set about developing a strategy to propel it into the front ranks of the world's airframe manufacturers...
Larry Austgen, 31, of South Holland, Ill., is a contractor by trade, but a gambler by nature. Two years ago, Austgen built his first speculative house in suburban Chicago's posh Plum Valley: a luxury 2,400-sq.-ft. brick home guaranteed, he thought, to have the buyers lining up. Wrong. By the time it was built in August 1979, soaring mortgage rates and a souring real estate market had made a lemon of Austgen's plum. The house, appraised by realtors at $147,000, sat unsold for more than 18 months. Then Austgen had a sporting proposition...
...European governments. In a butter-over-guns decision two weeks ago, West Germany announced it would delay a number of planned defense development projects. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party has officially endorsed a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament. The Dutch Labor Party has voted to reduce sharply Holland's nuclear role in NATO. So far, European leaders have managed to hold the line against this current and maintain a pro-Alliance course. But if the antimilitaristic mood continues to grow, it will hamper the ability of NATO governments to carry out their December 1979 pledge to deploy...