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Asia's major airlines will soon start feeling the pinch. Airline analysts and executives expect budget carriers to drag down fares throughout Asia. Both Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, Asia's premier airlines, deny 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 sold round trips between Hong Kong and Singapore for $128even less than the $160 fare offered by Singapore-based low-cost carrier Valuair, which started flying that same month. Major airlines "have been advertising prices even lower than...
...taken a very long time to drag the Australian courts and government into admitting that the Aborigines owned their land before white arrival--that the doctrine of terra nullius (no- man's-land) was legally invalid. This finally happened in 1992, when Eddie Mabo, a member of the Meriam clan on the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait off northern Australia, successfully argued before the high court that his people had been there before the whites and had never given up their ancient rights of ownership. This was the first "native title" victory in Australian...
Coupled with other crime syndicates across Italy's south, including the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra around Naples, the Mob is not just murderous, but also a major drag on Italy's economic development. A recent report by the Confesercenti small-business association estimated that organized crime accounts for 7% of Italy's GDP, a larger share than any corporate behemoth, even the energy giant ENI. The Sicilian Mob is one of Italy's original multinationals, having partnered with its Italo-American cousins and gangsters around the world to traffic drugs and weapons, launder money and promote other illegal...
...swing states. Says a purple-state Congressman who is nervous about holding onto his seat if Clinton is the nominee: "She certainly will get Republicans riled up. They will not only go out and vote against her--they'll stop off at their neighbors' house along the way and drag them to the polls...
...bearing on his popularity; it's most likely due to the fact that people can't spell "Giuliani." The most common Giuliani searches focus on his stance on taxes and the war. Beyond that, however, there's an odd obsession with finding images of "Rudy Giuliani in Drag," perhaps fueled by some circulating photos from a 2000 political roast. It's just weird...