Word: rotterdam
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Relatively few emigrants found the paradise promised by the ads and the letters home. The early arrivals were, by and large, poor, ill-schooled and young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within...
Tchaikovsky and Verdi Arias, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Philips). Hvorostovsky, 28, has a voice that is big, rich and -- most important -- silky smooth. There hasn't been a baritone with this force and allure since the young Hermann Prey...
...biggest marriage on the Continent took place in April with the joining of two longtime Dutch rivals, Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and Amsterdam- Rotterdam Bank (Amro). The pair forms Europe's sixth largest bank and the 19th biggest in the world, with combined assets of $184 billion and 55,700 employees. "A merger is necessary to operate worldwide and in the Netherlands," says Roelof Nelissen, Amro's chairman...
Incredibly, emergency crews were not able to attack the flames promptly with anything more effective than seawater. The Norwegian owners of the stricken tanker had hired a Rotterdam-based salvage firm to deal with the accident. Nozzles, hoses and pumps for fire-fighting-foam equipment had to be air shipped from the Netherlands. This took two days. Some oil-containment equipment was flown from London. Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company...
...curiously out of tune with the world as it looks in 1990. The Warsaw Pact, for all practical purposes, is dead as a military alliance. Soviet troops might have to fight their way through Warsaw, Prague and even Berlin before getting anywhere near the Fulda Gap, much less Bonn, Rotterdam or Paris. And while the Soviets were long considered capable of mobilizing for a strike at Western Europe in as little as 14 days, Pentagon analysts say that NATO could now detect preparations a month in advance. Some outside experts argue that signs of war would be evident a full...