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...have lost through cancellations and lost bookings in the week after the plot's discovery. The government says the suit has no merit. O'Leary, who has promised to give the money to charity if the company wins, said: "Ryanair's sole motive in this action is to defeat terrorism by returning airport security to normal." Other airlines affected, including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, aren't joining Ryanair in its suit. Analysts say the move reflects a vulnerability in Ryanair's business model: O'Leary has turned the Dublin-based carrier into Europe's most profitable airline by cutting...
...border forces, but also involves assisting with low-level civic projects throughout HOA such as digging wells, building schools and distributing books, and holding medical and veterinary clinics in remote villages." These efforts, Abizaid said, engender goodwill and help "discredit extremist propaganda and bolster local desires and capabilities to defeat terrorists before they can become entrenched...
...lawyer's defense against a long line of pessimists. Luigi Barzini, a foreign correspondent and prolific writer, in perhaps the most authoritative of Italian portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point...
...supporter and funder Rapoport. "The worst mistake she can make is to move to the right. She's going to lose a lot of the enthusiasm of the people who can get her elected." But others point out that by supporting a statute banning flag burning, she helped defeat a more drastic constitutional amendment that would have done the same thing--very much like what her husband did in 1995 when he produced a balanced budget, horrifying the left with 25% cuts in domestic spending. That helped take the political momentum out of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment...
...Ironically, it was politics - make that a political setback - that led him to the U.S. Army. When he was 27, he ran for state representative and lost. Following what he calls a crushing defeat, he worked as a waiter. One night at the restaurant he encountered an Arizona politician, whom he refuses to name. "He came up behind me and kind of slapped my back and said, 'Good job, Jonathan,' and he handed me two bucks," Paton says. "I just felt completely humiliated. I went home back to my apartment, and I was just sitting there in my boxer shorts...