Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When word was radioed to the crew that Las Palmas Airport had been closed because terrorists had touched off a bomb in a local flower shop, injuring eight people, they landed at Tenerife instead. Veldhuizen took advantage of the delay to refuel his plane for the flight back to Holland. He took on 21,000 gallons...
...cross-cultural social analysis of self-affirmed male homosexuals in Denmark, Holland and America, Martin Weinberg and Colin Williams (1974) accumulated a considerable amount of interesting data. Much of their evidence tends to contradict popular stereotypes...
...doleful sight: mile after mile of flaring wellhead fires burning off natural gas, a fuel that has become painfully scarce in many parts of the U.S. Equally bounteous reserves of gas exist in many other parts of the world, from Soviet Siberia to the marshy fields of Holland-and several of the nations with the biggest reserves must export gas if they are to tap the potential wealth, because their populations are too small to use all they have (see chart). Yet apart from a trickle of imports flowing in by pipeline from Canada, the gas deposits in most other...
Mixed Blessing. By contrast, the U.S. will probably not be importing much gas from Europe. Holland, the Continent's leading producer and exporter, is phasing out shipments to other countries in an effort to conserve its supplies. Britain, too, intends to hold on to most of the gas that it is beginning to pump from underneath the North Sea. Indeed, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European demand is already outstripping its reserves. By 1985, the organization estimates, European gas imports from Iran, Algeria, the Soviet Union and elsewhere will total almost 3 trillion...
...tournament Radcliffe placed fifth, with Mary Holland garnering third place in the individual championships...