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Fuel costs may have been a culprit, but the major problem the airline faces is that it sees no signs of improvement in the economy. BA's CEO said, "The prolonged nature of the global downturn makes this the harshest trading environment we have ever faced and, with no immediate...
carbon dioxide •potential danger of to the environment is pooh-poohed by conservatives because "we breathe" it and "we are made of carbon"
Originally, such issues were handled by the danwei, the work units to which Chinese employees were once closely bound, says Zhou Hanhua, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The danwei supervised workers' lives down to marriage and childbirth, and prevented people from engaging in unregulated enterprises on...
The majority of the confirmed infections are among high school students. "These are the kinds of people who meet in cafeterias, sports events, youth clubs, karaoke," says Cordingley. "They mingle a lot, and mingling is the perfect environment for this virus." But he added that "We honestly don't know...
Although women play important public roles in various sectors of Iranian society and constitute the majority of university students, no woman thus far has been appointed to a significant ministry in post-revolutionary Iran. The woman who has held the highest Cabinet position is Massoumeh Ebtekar - better known to American...