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...LIKE Chandler in drag...
...Asia's major airlines will soon start feeling the pinch. Airline analysts and executives expect budget carriers to drag down fares throughout Asia. Though that's good news for consumers, it's not for the big airlines. In Europe and the U.S., budget airlines, led by Dublin-based Ryanair, wreaked havoc on major airlines by slashing fares and stealing customers. Both Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, Asia's premier airlines, deny that they are cutting prices in response to this new threat. But they have been offering what they call routine special promotions. In May, Cathay Pacific...
...growth in the E.U. averaged about 3% per year in the 1970s, it slowed to 2% in the 1990s. In the U.S., by contrast, it has remained steady at an average of 3.2%, according to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.). How do high taxes drag down the rest of the economy? Look at the "tax wedge" - the difference between what it costs to employ a worker (wages and social-security charges) and the worker's take-home pay. In Belgium and Germany, this gap peaked at more than 50% last year. In other words...
...Reagan was 11 when he came home one day and found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey ... I got a fistful of his overcoat [and] managed to drag him inside...
...push forward now would simply drag the process out in a legal quagmire that would probably take more than 180 days,” said Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, the other co-sponsor of the original order. “This is an exciting time and I want to move forward as quickly...