Word: netherlands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York's focus is as sweeping as Ourselves' is intimate. "New York was based upon greed," says the late Brendan Gill in the 10-hour documentary. Unlike the colonies settled by religious persecutees (and persecutors), New Netherland was run by the mammoth Dutch West India Co. (Imagine Microsoft building Seattle.) And the city remained dedicated to the godless buck as it became British, then American--though not always for the best, as Jacob Riis' horrifying photographs of immigrant poverty powerfully illustrate...
...told the group at a meeting a few years ago that her biggest thrill had been going to a "shooting gallery," buying drugs and injecting them. Hearing that, Helen told a friend that her biggest thrill had been going to the cocktail lounge at New York City's Sherry Netherland Hotel because they had great drinks and hot hors d'oeuvres. "The old-timers are being driven away by not being able to identify with the specifics of people's drug stories," agrees Peter, a six-year veteran. "The issue isn't getting more people into A.A. but keeping...
...Observer Magazine ran a cover story stating that "one of the most accessible places for intercountry adoption is, surprisingly, the United States." Craig Bluestein, a Pennsylvania attorney, says he has been receiving "a lot of England calls" lately. And while the Dutch government is aware of such adoptions, the Netherland's largest international adoption agency reports that there were "one or two cases about 10 years ago, but since then nothing." It took TIME just a single week to turn up six such adoptions that took place within the past four years...
...Search committee chair and spokesperson Charles P. Slichter '45, reached at the Omni Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio the night before The Crimson identified Rudenstine as the committee's nominee. Slichter was attending an American Physical Society convention...
...vital part of shortwave listening is the pursuit of QSL cards--postcards that stations send to listeners who write in with reception reports. For most stations, the QSL ritual is simple. If you hear, say. Radio Netherland, you write them a letter describing the reception with some obligatory flattering remarks about the quality of their programs. Some months later they send you back a postcard depicting people in local costumes doing a customary dance...