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...Union early in the year at least averted the even bigger losses that a cabin-crew walkout would have triggered. But the ugly dispute left both parties admitting that a fresh start was necessary. That will take a while. The roots of January's squabble were buried in agreements drawn up in the '90s. Walsh acknowledges, "You don't change the way you do business with long-established trade-union relationships overnight...
...under the Open Skies agreement, drawn up by Washington and Brussels, starting early next year any E.U. airline will have the right to fly to any city in the U.S., and vice versa. With U.S. rivals Delta and Continental expected to invade Heathrow next year, "BA's business-class fare is going to be under considerable pressure," says JPMorgan's Avery...
...standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands of jobs the boom has created. Then there are those from even farther afield--venture capitalists from San Francisco, artists from Brussels, chefs from Rome, legions of gimlet-eyed businessmen from Taipei, Berlin and Tel Aviv--all drawn to make fortune or fame or maybe just to say "I was there the year that Beijing welcomed the world...
...Antunes said. “But at least the Concentration Fair helped me understand a few things I need to do to start the process of choosing.” Unlike Antunes, Kevin T. Huang ’09 declared his concentration months ago, but was still drawn to the perks of the fair. “I think it’s great that freshmen are getting early exposure to choosing a concentration,” Huang said, “But I’m just here to grab a free sandwich on the way to class...
...blinked back tears, and his voice wavered. Unable to parry reporters' queries, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe let drawn-out pauses speak more loudly than his choked words. For a man who had staked his reputation on being the tough guy who would transform his homeland into a self-confident nation with a military worthy of its economic might, the end had come with a whimper. But even stranger was the reason Abe gave during a Sept. 12 speech announcing his intent to step down as Japan's leader. In his tumultuous yearlong tenure, Abe weathered a stunning parliamentary...