Word: luxembourger
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...first time since France began its boycott of the Common Market last July, the foreign ministers of the Six met to resolve their differences in Luxembourg's Hôtel de Ville. Not much had changed. Offensively, France took the offensive...
...change someone was snapping his picture, and Master Photographer Edward Steichen, 86, was grinning "cheese" through his whiskers. He'd just been made a Commandeur de l'Ordre de Mérite of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where he was born. After Luxembourg's Ambassador to the United Nations, Pierre Wurth, presented the order's cross in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Steichen reported that he'll be starting off on a new photographic collection, something like 1955's magnificent "Family of Man." Only now, he chuckled, "it's about...
Simple in Luxembourg. The major alternative is to borrow from European banks. But in Europe's limited markets, U.S. companies already have borrowed about as much as they can. Moreover, loans from European bankers are often tied to development within the country where money is borrowed. Bond money can be spent anywhere; Honeywell has earmarked its $20 million for operations in Britain, Germany, France and Holland. The best part of all is that bonds are tax-free if issued through specially chartered holding companies. Such companies are not hard to set up. The state of Delaware will charter...
...roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There, says Architect Netsch, students can bask and study in balmy weather, as if "loafing in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens...
...December 1944 when Hitler's Panzer divisions mounted the last great German offensive of World War II. Tiger tanks and infantry spat destruction against the Allied invaders, thrusting them back through the Ardennes forest along a lightly guarded 85-mile front to gouge out a bleeding chunk of Luxembourg, France and eastern Belgium. What happened at the Bulge? According to a trio of Hollywood script writers, the Allies were caught flat-footed because nobody would listen to Henry Fonda...