An 11-year-old Dutch boy, Jurre Hermans, entered a serious economics competition with a plan for bringing the Greek economy back from the brink.

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Like the Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike, Shultz strained to hold back those who believed that the economy had changed to such an extent that the free market no longer worked.

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She estimates that Wal-Mart sells around 22 million gallons of paint a year, split half and half between Sherwin's brand, Dutch Boy (set to be replaced by Azko's Glidden brand) and Wal-Mart's own brand, Color Place.

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Indeed, like the legendary Dutch boy - whose digits were insufficient for the leaks sprouting in the dike upon which his homeland's survival depended, Bob Gates is clearly frustrated by the lack to date of positive responses to his appeals for corrective action.

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And so it is that if you are a good little Dutch girl or boy, you can expect two Christmas visits from a kindly, old man.

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On Friday, a court in northern Sweden ordered retrials in the remaining two cases: the 1976 death of 15-year-old boy whose remains were found 17 years later, and the fatal stabbings of a Dutch couple in 1984.

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