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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 tourism is the country’s modern lifeblood, and not just as a result of our insatiable thirst for history.
But Microsoft's lifeblood is its employee stock-option program, and so the stock price is, in a sense, one of the fundamentals.
Since L.A. is a savage desert hellscape not fit for human life, it has to suck its lifeblood, Scream, Blacula, Scream -style, from the whole western half of the continent.
They remain some of the most evocative images of the 1970s, those film clips of sheiks clad in flowing robes and luxuriant headdresses, striding confidently from hotel lobbies into waiting limousines, secure in the knowledge that in controlling two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, they controlled the lifeblood of the industrialized world.