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The port was the lifeblood of the city at that time and ships would sail right into the heart of Amstelredamme, as it was then known.
But although the topic is important enough for a NYT editorial, don't look for any Times news stories to really dig into such leaks, as they are the lifeblood of the paper's scandal coverage.
Daunting to early-20th-century explorers—trapping (and ultimately crushing) Ernest Shackleton's Endurance and derailing Robert Scott's 1901 Discovery expedition—the seasonal pack ice is the lifeblood of Antarctica's marine ecosystem.
Santarém, 78 km (48 miles) northeast of Lisbon, is the ancient capital of the agricultural region of the Ribatejo, whose lifeblood is the mighty River Tagus.
But Microsoft's lifeblood is its employee stock-option program, and so the stock price is, in a sense, one of the fundamentals.