Its offices on the 105th floor of One World Trade Centre housed a collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin.
But even for western countries that have been exposed to bombs and bullets for longer, the bombings of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon unveiled a new level of threat.
The Americans are especially interested: a suspect in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York was arrested while travelling on a Nicaraguan passport.
The court action was brought by the owners of a shopping complex in the centre of Scunthorpe, who claimed the development would affect trade.
Thought to have once been a commercial centre for trade, only 10% of the Lost City has been excavated by archaeologists, giving it an eerie, haunted atmosphere.
The beam, found in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre, was a totem for rescuers.
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Many small shops and cafes in the city centre do not open on a Sunday and some of those which do say the lack of free parking is driving trade to the Metro Centre in Gateshead instead.
T-shirts from a store that stood in the shadow of the World Trade Centre.
Mr German, who is currently on a trade mission to Canada, remains at the centre of allegations about his running of the European Unit of the Welsh exams board the WJEC.
His conclusion of a free-trade deal with South Korea is another move towards the centre.
However, Steve Bryson, from developers Centros, which is planning a 400, 000 sq ft (37, 161 sq m) shopping centre at Castle Piccadilly, York, said the extent of the plans for Monks Cross would have a "big impact" on city centre trade.
Walking to a meeting in the financial district past the Freedom Tower built on the site of the World Trade Centre, New York seemed quieter than usual.
Lee Kreindler, a New York lawyer, says that some of the families of those killed in the World Trade Centre and on the hijacked airliners have shown interest.
The visitor and heritage centre replaces Garstang's Discovery Centre in High Street and will also mark the start of the Fair Trade Way, a heritage trail that links Fairtrade towns between Garstang and Keswick.
At the Dead Sea get-together, Mr Bremer promoted trade opportunities to the assembled hundreds of businessmen, and announced the opening of a business centre in Baghdad.
Trade in the city centre fell by 30%, and might have fallen further if a branch of John Lewis had moved out as it originally threatened to do.
Even now, Sheffield University's Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, home of the three editors of this dictionary, is recording a newly dying trade, mining.
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