Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of mini-panic. Markets careened as speculators struggled to grasp what the departure meant. Spot oil prices first dropped more than a $1.10 per bbl. in New York City and then climbed nearly $2 to about $15.25 by week's end. Prices seesawed in London and Rotterdam. In Washington, a bewildered Reagan Administration official said the firing "caught us all by surprise...
...around 4 p.m. on a quiet Sunday, Ria Lubbers glanced out of her Rotterdam house and saw that two men had smashed the window of her car and were trying to rip out the radio. When Ria shouted, the burglars loosed a stream of obscenities and walked off. At that point, two people rushed to Ria's aid: one of her sons and her husband Ruud, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands...
...Soviet cruise fleet now ranks third worldwide, with 36 vessels of 1,000 tons or more, compared with the U.S. fleet, which has dwindled to six. Sailing from Genoa, Tilbury (England) and Rotterdam, the liners offer rates 15% to 20% below those of most Western ships. Travelers give Soviet cruises high marks. A group from Lisieux, France, who sailed the Norwegian fjords on the Leonid Brezhnev in May, was enchanted by everything from crew members, who danced "Russian," to inexpensive vodka, and frog's legs for dinner...
Wolter pulled out a map of Rotterdam. "The Dutch map the devil out of that country. Look here. That's all reclaimed land. It's low country, so they have just had to create a country. See here, every drainage ditch is indicated, every wharf. The tulip areas are down here. Here are the dunes. With the changing and the reclaiming, the mapping has to be precise. They have an artistic flair...
...year-old Mecir has beaten Timmy Connote and Sweden's Mats Wilander this Year and won $15,000 tournaments at Hamburg and Rotterdam, successes that have helped lift him to No. 10 in the world...