Düsseldorf

[doos-uhl-dawrf, dys-uhl-dawrf]

noun

1. a port in and the capital of North Rhine–Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.

Düsseldorf

/ ˈdysəldɔrf, ˈdʊsəlˌdɔːf /

noun

1. an industrial city in W Germany, capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Rhine: commercial centre of the Rhine-Ruhr industrial area. Pop: 572 511 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

The tall twosome — reportedly 5-foot-10 — was discovered three years later while dancing in Düsseldorf in 1955, by the director of Paris’ Lido cabaret, according to German news agency DPA International.

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"These drugs have the potential to bring about substantial weight loss, particularly in the first year," says Juan Franco, co-lead researcher from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Lippmann brimmed with fascinating details: the historical behavior of the American homeowner; the idiocy and corruption of the rating agencies, Moody’s and S&P, who stuck a triple-B rating on subprime bonds that went bad when losses in the underlying pools of home loans reached just 8 percent; the widespread fraud in the mortgage market; the folly of subprime mortgage investors, some large number of whom seemed to live in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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It didn’t matter whether Düsseldorf was buying actual cash subprime mortgage bonds or selling credit default swaps on those same mortgage bonds, as they amounted to one and the same thing: the long side of the bet.

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There were a few other messy details—some of the lead was sold off directly to German investors in Düsseldorf—but when the dust settled, Goldman Sachs had taken roughly 2 percent off the top, risk-free, and booked all the profit up front.

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