Word: airport
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They claimed it was a language problem. If so, members of Albania's national soccer team and its accompanying under-21 team seemed to have confused the word duty-free with "all free" during a recent three-hour stopover at London's Heathrow Airport. The party of 37 loaded up with $3,400 worth of goods at a duty-free shop, then left without paying...
...time they got to the gate, there were watches everywhere," said one airport official. The police were not impressed with the soccer players' alleged language difficulties and locked up 30 of them. After 24 hours of searching unsuccessfully for a translator, the police decided it would be easier to call it off, and escorted the Albanians aboard their flight to Iceland. According to one official, the footballers may also have had language difficulties in Rome, because they were carrying items from that airport's duty-free shop...
...Embarrassed by the continuing presence of demonstrators, Chinese officials move site of official welcoming reception for Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev from Tiananmen Square to Beijing airport. Some 2200 students begin a hunger strike...
...workshop of ideas" spread out over the entire 7,090-sq.-mi. Veneto region. The "ideas network" would be centered in the 80-acre Arsenale, the old shipbuilding yards of the Venetian navy. Along the edge of the lagoon, from the polluted petrochemical shores of Marghera to Marco Polo airport, a "Riviera of culture and technology" would be tied together by an aboveground metro. Planners promise that the construction would create 5,000 jobs, as well as a sophisticated electronics- and-communicati ons system to serve the city in the next century...
...half the country's 150,000 government employees staged strikes for salary increases of 200% and, more important, job security. When Chamorro took office last month, she suspended a Sandinista-passed law that prohibits firing government workers, most of whom are FSLN supporters. With public buses idle and the airport closed, the government gave way by Thursday, agreeing to a 100% pay hike and promising not to dismiss anyone. Said union leader Lucio Jimenez: "I hope the government learned something from this...