Word: airport
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...year-old was chosen to lead the Sayeret Matkal, and began a string of daredevil heroics. The next year, he and Netanyahu were among the special forces who donned maintenance workers' white overalls to storm a Sabena airplane hijacked en route to Tel Aviv airport. Long fascinated by mechanical devices, Barak skillfully picked a lock to open the airplane door. In 1973 he dressed as a woman to infiltrate Beirut with a unit that assassinated three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was a commander of Israel's famous 1976 operation to rescue hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport...
...known, were key participants in the family treasure hunt. Sigit, the eldest son, was apparently pushed into business by his mother, Madam Tien, whose own behind-the-scenes dealings in the 1970s earned her the nickname "Madam Tien Percent." Two sources who worked on Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport project say that by the time its two terminals were finished in 1984, $78.2 million had been handed to Sigit in markups that appeared as cost overruns. Second son Bambang was given a slice of the lucrative business of importing and distributing basic commodities, such as wheat, sugar, soybeans...
...children at a northern airport where they're heading, and they don't say Orlando; they say, with an almost desperate glow, "Disney." Walt and his successors turned Central Florida swampland into the country's top resort destination and, for decades, have virtually monopolized it. Now Edgar Bronfman's besieged company has spent five years and $2.5 billion (on top of a previous billion or so for its Universal Studios Florida, or U.S.F., park, which opened in 1990) to get Orlando-bound kids to think "Universal." Though visitors have been filtering in since March, this week marks the official opening...
Schrempp knows this is risky, because mergers often fail, and big ones fail more often. So DaimlerChrysler is dancing a transoceanic jitterbug that is testing the limits of corporate convention. German and American bosses are fusing their cultures on napkins in airport lounges and in the conference rooms of five-star hotels. The transatlantic traffic became so heavy that DaimlerChrysler, which owns 20% of Airbus, bought an A320 and outfitted it like an NBA charter so its executives could get some sleep between meetings. The 53-seat plane (an A320 normally has 150 seats) flies four weekly round trips between...
...insist that air travel is more costly, crowded and chaotic than ever won a powerful ally last week: the U.S. Justice Department. In an antitrust suit that stunned major U.S. carriers, Justice accused No. 2, American Airlines, of driving three small discount rivals out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Trustbusters said American flooded routes served by upstarts Vanguard, Sun Jet and Western Pacific with its own new flights and illegally slashed fares below the cost of providing the seats--a practice known as predatory pricing. American, which carries 77% of all passengers who fly nonstop from the third largest...