Word: airports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels quickly shut down the airport and overran a government garrison at Samarkhel, south of Jalalabad. But their frontal attacks on the city were repulsed. The fighting now consists mostly of duels between government artillery and rebel rockets that have led only to horrendous civilian casualties...
...solution, Skinner believes, is to build new airports and expand existing ones so that they have room for more carriers. Next week voters in Denver will decide whether to fund the initial $2.3 billion for a new airport. It is the only major airport on U.S. drawing boards at the moment and, if approved, would be the country's first new one since Dallas-Fort Worth was completed...
Some critics of the airlines have accused them of opposing new airport construction because the additional gates would bring new competition. "Obviously, we've got fewer players in the airline industry. That's what makes everybody concerned about the future," says Skinner. "I don't want to go back to the time when only the rich could travel by air." If airline prices keep heading north, however, growing numbers of the nonrich may find themselves grounded...
...like almost everyone else, you're trying to do something else at the same time -- if you are stuck in traffic, waiting in the airport lounge, watching the news, if you're stirring the soup, shining your shoes, drying your hair . . . read on. Or hire someone to read it for you and give you a report...
...crime in Switzerland unless it can be shown that the cash flows from criminal activities. Yet Switzerland is a magnet for money launderers because of its legitimate multibillion-dollar trade in foreign bank notes. As much as 3,000 lbs. of foreign currency arrives daily at Zurich's Kloten airport. Much of the cash represents earnings from tourism, which each country's banks exchange for local currency. Swiss authorities are investigating charges that Lebanese currency dealer Barkev Magharian, 35, and his brother Jean, 44, both of whom are now in custody, took advantage of that market by laundering around...