Word: franciscos
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...like it, but we got a raise this week. The plunging price of oil, which prompted OPEC to announce a 1.5 million barrel a day production cut, has put money in the pockets of recession-worried consumers. "It follows that there's going to be some spending effect," said Francisco Blach head of commodities research at Merrill Lynch in London...
...themes aren’t particularly deep, but as a whole, “Hope for the Hopeless” is a pleasant enough diversion. That first track, though, is almost enough to make you give up on the album. The song is called “San Francisco,” and it’s about a guy who leaves a bad relationship for the City by the Bay. From the way he tells it, though, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the girl’s fault that things went...
...Qantas began flying propeller planes from Australia to the U.S. (a three-day journey). Today the airline has added the decidedly faster 450-passenger Airbus A380 to its fleet. To celebrate, Qantas is putting fares on sale: $380 one-way from Los Angeles or San Francisco to Sydney or Brisbane and $480 one-way to Melbourne, for travel...
...intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony--and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world leader. Mitch Neuger, SAN FRANCISCO...
...couple ultimately worked out with American a plan to fly to Los Angeles, then on to Tahiti. However, seats couldn't be secured with Air Tahiti Nui, so a more circuitous route had to be taken: from New York to San Francisco to Sydney to Papeete. That itinerary would have the couple traveling some seven hours out of their way and crossing the International Date Line twice. Not the wedding gift they'd hoped...