Word: costes
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Your article was a welcome report on the progress of women's opportunities. Progress always comes with costs. With the minority choosing to abandon the workforce for their infants, it's fair to say public and private sector policies need also to embrace this change. Otherwise the real cost will be borne by the next generation. Frank Howard, LONDON...
That's true. While the cost of housing can be an obsession in other cities, Berlin's plentiful supply of inexpensive pads is a key factor in its appeal. A big overhang of cheap apartments and abandoned factories and warehouses in the formerly communist eastern half has depressed prices throughout the city. Studio space is to be had for next to nothing. Even in Mitte, the center of Berlin's new Szene, newly renovated apartments rent for less than one quarter of what you'd pay in London. That's a big draw. But Berlin isn't just cheap. Some...
Picking up trash and pulling weeds may not sound terribly posh, but at a growing number of high-end resorts, where rooms often cost $400 or $500 a night, these activities are becoming yet another hotel amenity. One morning you can sleep in and order room service, and the next you can serve breakfast at a soup kitchen...
With runaway costs and labor disputes scuttling plenty of these deals in the past, BA and Iberia - set to keep their separate brands and operating divisions under a new Spain-based holding company - will need to proceed with caution. Sure, rough economic head winds and the business of turning two firms into one can give cost cutting real momentum. The tough trading conditions following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were, after all, a "catalyst for the success of [the Air France-KLM merger] at the time," says Howard Wheeldon, an aviation expert at brokers BGC Partners in London. (Read "British...
...other words, "If you put one high-fare, loss-making airline together with another high-fare, loss-making airline," Michael O'Leary, head of low-cost rival Ryanair, told Bloomberg, "you will get an airline with higher fares making much bigger losses...