Word: nord
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Five years ago, the city of Duisburg, Germany, vastly upped the ante when it completed its huge Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, a 570-acre site occupied by massive relics of the former Thyssen Steelworks. Blast furnaces, rail lines, gas tanks--corroded ruins of the industrial age--were reborn as archaeological monuments among newly planted groves and grasslands. And the designer, Peter Latz, didn't hesitate to directly invade the factory precincts with trees and smaller plantings, playgrounds and rock-climbing walls. By that means the derelict factory was woven back into the world of the living. The past, instead...
...described as experiencing "very low food security." The shift in terminology, which inspired such a furor, came about as bureaucratic translations so often do: slowly, earnestly, and all but blindly when it came to the larger meaning. "It seems that 'hungry' means different things to different people," explains Mark Nord, one of the principal authors of the USDA report. Some anti-hunger activists said that any household that had to struggle to keep food on the table should be classified as hungry; others countered that this diminished the power of the term, and that it should refer only...
...same time, Lundgren found that Europeans, on the political left as well as the right, have learned to accept the need for free-market solutions, even if it means shutting down loss-making steel mills and shipyards. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor-of economics at the University of Paris Nord, also noted the growth of a new entrepreneurial spirit that helps growth...
...claims for economic damages. They first gathered at the Marriott Hotel to swap horror stories and pep talks. Under present legal rules, "you're afraid to try anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery-charging machines, drew loud applause by declaring, "There are going to be people who are dumb and stupid and screw up no matter what we do." Ohio Democratic Congressman Thomas Luken showed up to cheer on the manufacturers. Said he: "Probably...
...combat experience with the Soviet Army in Afghanistan. Trunov's clients crowded each day into the small courtroom to testify. Through tears and clenched teeth, they summoned up painful memories of the night of Oct. 23, when they or their family members enjoyed Act I of the musical romance Nord-Ost (North-East), then found themselves immersed in a real-life tableau that unfolded in horror. "My late husband always joked that musicians and prostitutes will be safe under any regime," says Valentina Khramtsova, widow of Fyodor Khramtsov, a trumpet player in the show's orchestra. "Little did he know...