Word: handout
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...Still Fly To Dublin A bad week for Irish budget airline Ryanair: a German court ordered the airline to drop the name Düsseldorf for an airport some 70 km outside of the city. Then a French court determined that a 31.4 million handout Ryanair received from a Strasbourg chamber of commerce to help set up flight services to London was illegal...
...Romney-Healy team. Gabriel J. Toussant, vice-chair of the Romney Diversity Committee, said minorities were tired of a party that “just pays lip service to you. They need to know that there is another party that gives you a good start, not a handout...
...model - the Stilo, a hatchback starting at about €14,000 - and is slated for up to 1,200 layoffs. "Agriculture died here a long time ago," Lecce said. "Without Fiat, there's nowhere to find work." Deciding whether the carmaker should get a time-honored public sector handout now falls to Berlusconi. It's a difficult task for a politician who rode to office pledging to liberate Italy's free market - and still considers himself a product of open competition from his days in the cutthroat real-estate business. But inside Italian business circles, the question is even trickier...
When the Federal Government set up the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) last fall to help prop up the ailing airlines with $10 billion in loan guarantees, many credit-strapped CEOs licked their chops in anticipation of yet another big, fat government handout. But this time, at least so far, Uncle Sam hasn't turned into Uncle Sugar. Trying to impose some much needed discipline on the free-spending flyers, the Stabilization Board has required stringent cost-cutting measures as a condition for its help--and hasn't been shy about turning down such requests, as it did with National...
...Harvard Yard a first-year student handed me a neon-orange leaflet emblazoned with “Living Wage Now!” I asked him why he supported the living wage. He responded with a pre-programmed response that he’d practically memorized from a handout. I asked him about the socioeconomic principles behind the movement. He stammered. I pressed for his opinion. He told me to talk to so-and-so, who would be better able to address my concerns. I asked him how he could so adamantly support a movement he didn?...