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...between the U.S. and Asia, and Asia and the E.U." In other words, the real battle of the world's skies is only starting--just as Air France can feel confident knowing its people are fighting the competition rather than the company. AIR FRANCE--KLM GROUP (FY 2006) Once beset by labor trouble and red ink, the company has soared into profitability. Sales $28.2 billion Profits $1.2 billion Employees 103, 127 Passenger planes AF 254 KLM 190 Destinations 225 in 109 countries Stock Ownership French state: 18.6% Employees...
...Harvard women’s tennis team, the Crimson faced a tough test on Friday with matches against No. 19 Kentucky and BU. Coming into the spring season, the team incredibly found itself too short on numbers to compete. “This team has been beset by more challenging situations personally than any team I’ve ever seen,” coach Gordon Graham said. “We had four players from the fall who decided to or were unable to play in the spring. You had extenuating circumstances for every one of them...
...Yubari is a very Japanese story: Since the postwar era, Tokyo has channeled massive subsidies to its underperforming hinterland. That formula secured the government reliable votes, but it also enabled rural people to enjoy higher income levels, sparing Japan from the social inequality that has beset such rapidly growing neighbors as China. But the policy was sustainable only as long as Tokyo had budget surpluses to burn. Today, Japan may be the world's second-richest nation, but its public debt that is more than 1.5 times the size of its GDP, the highest in the developed world...
Syria, on the other hand, regards the return of Arafat's P.L.O. as bad news. Beset by economic problems and rising Western opposition to Syrian-sponsored terrorism, Assad still wants to dominate both Lebanon and the Palestinians. In resisting Assad's efforts, Arafat is working to reunite the Palestinian factions, though he suspects that the Damascus-based groups may demand his ouster as the cost of reconciliation, and he is not ready to pay that price. Meanwhile, he flits restlessly around the Middle East, directing and planning the comeback of the P.L.O. Still, after four years in the political wilderness...
...summer at its sizzling hottest, the two-month party leading up to carnaval is just beginning. But over this past holiday season, after a night of terror wrought by drug gangs who attacked police stations, gunned down law enforcement officers and burnt buses, the self-proclaimed Marvelous City was beset by a mix of fear and fatalism...