Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American companies were told that the construction of the New Kansai International Airport was "too difficult for foreigners" even though American companies have turned the deserts of Saudi Arabia into gleaming futuristic cities. While Japanese banks widely expand in the U.S., foreign banks control less than 2 percent of the banking business in Japan, and Citicorp was reportedly blocked in its quest to acquire the bankrupt Heiwa Sogo Bank owing to inside influence. Sumitomo Bank, one of Japan's largest banks, acquired...
...great advantage of not being written in indigestible jargon of international relations," Hoffmann says. "But it's not for people who pick up Ludlum at the airport, either," referring to the author of best-selling intrigue novels...
...Vegas and New Orleans. But analysts give Trump's gamble long odds. To begin with, the weather in February is less than hospitable, and the Taj is hard to get to from most parts of the country. Traffic congeals on summer weekends, train service is poor, and the airport lacks a real passenger terminal. Costs are high, says Paine Webber analyst Lee Isgur, "because basically New Jersey is a scummy place for unions and bureaucracy." The present mayor has been indicted for corruption and influence peddling, the fourth of the past six incumbents to be charged with a crime...
...buyer for Iraq when he contacted a California manufacturer of capacitors in September 1988. One year later, he struck a deal for 40 capacitors powerful enough to detonate a nuclear blast. Last week U.S. and British customs investigators seized the cargo in a freight shed at London's Heathrow Airport and arrested four people in connection with the attempt to smuggle arms into Iraq...
With an elegantly attired airport concierge, burgundy porcelain sinks, an ultra-cellular "Seatfone" attached to every other seat and an in-flight magazine featuring articles on "Collectors Items For Under $10,000" for cost-conscious Yuppies, the Trump Shuttle is the perfect way to arrive at that power lunch in style...