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...trip north to Brussels, the Ryanair traffic created 1,800 jobs and breathed €40 million a year into the local economy, according to the Walloon regional government that owns the airport. But a European Commission ruling could clip Ryanair's wings and bring Charleroi's renaissance to an abrupt end. Discounts of the kind offered to Ryanair are an industry commonplace that have helped the €3.6 billion European discount-airline business - and out-of-the-way airports - take off. But none of its rival airlines have had the clout to strike the bargains Ryanair has. If an airport...
...then eventually not only hunt them down but tape-record their conversation? Why does Paul, when given a perfectly good chance to make it in the upper crust, turn it down? The play also features a subplot involving two Utah theater students that peters out without concluding, and an abrupt, unsatisfying ending...
...Chen strides down the claustrophobic hallways of a Hong Kong tenement in the opening scenes of Infernal Affairs II (IA2), there's a whiff of De Niro menace?especially when Chen, his gun concealed in an envelope, shoots an elderly crime boss through a doorway grill in a brutal, abrupt hit. The shot is a conspicuous reference to De Niro's first murder in Godfather II, and it stakes the ground for IA2's epic?and violent?aspirations...
...players, says DeLong, are a company's critical caretakers as firms go through the typical upheavals: CEO shuffles, corporate mergers, abrupt strategy changes. Because the B players tend to think of the company as a family, they often take the time to nurture and train inexperienced employees. The B's can save companies from disastrous oversights and unethical corner cutting, since their ties to the firm tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt...
...feathery plants and fairy-tale creatures that seem to grow out from all four sides of the frame. Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played out in multicolored dots. But 1933 brings an abrupt, definitive change in subject matter and style. The pale, thickly painted watercolor-and- plaster Head of a Martyr fills its small frame with downcast eyes and a battered, gap-toothed mouth. The circular face of Marked Man (1935), painted in scratchy russets and browns, is a target scarred with black...