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...public sector jobs next year. Those walkouts greatly broadened the front opposing government reform initiated Nov. 14 by transport and utility workers, whose ongoing strikes against the tightening of their pension schemes have caused most rail travel throughout France to be canceled, and have brought suburban train, subway, and bus service to a crawl. Tuesday's movement even found echo in the private sector, where Air France employees resumed strikes begun in late October to demand better pay. That mass action was set to be followed Wednesday with protests by students angered over university reforms, and next week by justice...
Which, as he knows, doesn't mean people can't dream. Born in a small village--"We were not even having a bus"--Gupta got the idea for his enterprise more than 20 years ago when neighbors begged him for tours after he landed his job at Indian Airlines. "The people from my village thought I was a very big man and could show them the aircraft," he says. "But due to security I could not." In 2003 he bought a 20-year-old Indian Airlines plane "that had met with a small ground incident," cut it up and reassembled...
Tommy Doyle’s is running a booze bus to the game that it bills as “all inclusive.” Sexual implications aside, for the price of $50 (only $10 more than the round trip Harvard shuttle) you get a continental breakfast before departure, beer and snacks on the bus, a tailgate at the game, and an after party at Tommy’s on Saturday (if you still have a liver by then...
...don’t mind heading down to New Haven on Saturday morning and will be free to take in the best hockey game of the year tomorrow night at the Bright Hockey Center. But for most of us, who are planning to pile into a car or bus with our friends tomorrow afternoon to make the trip down, it means we have to choose...
...exaggerating. The cheap fares are luring Asians away from rickety buses, inefficient trains and traffic-choked highways. Laykha Boonlerd, 26, a bank employee in Kuala Lumpur, could never before afford to fly to Bangkok to see her family and instead made an excruciating 24-hour pilgrimage by bus and train. But with a one-way ticket on AirAsia costing only $26, she took wing in July for the first time. "I will travel much more with AirAsia," she says. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers like Boonlerd...