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Scanning the front pages of the Telegraph and rival newspapers he sells from his central London shop, Pankaj Mehta highlights another reason the expenses scandal hit Labour hardest. Reports of Conservative grandees submitting bills for the upkeep of mansions have reinforced the party's unfortunate image of entitlement and wealth, but the vision of Labour MPs subsidizing their lifestyles is more damaging still. New Labour defined itself as a party that encouraged wealth creation, that in the words of Peter Mandelson, Business Secretary and Brown's de facto deputy, was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich." But it still...
...though, can't afford to do nothing. Tumbling passenger numbers and a soaring fuel bill pushed BA to a pretax loss of $656 million in the 12 months leading to last April. The year before, BA made $1.5 billion. "The prolonged nature of the global downturn makes this the hardest trading environment we have ever faced," Walsh said as the results were announced in May, "with no immediate improvement visible...
...with their kids when they fall asleep," says Mindell. In the U.S., by contrast, when babies bed down in a separate room, "you're falling asleep on your own," Mindell says. "Mommy or Daddy puts you down, they walk out and they say goodnight." (See pictures of showbiz's hardest-working moms at LIFE.com...
...This was definitely one of the hardest briefs I've ever received," says Eric Hirshberg, president and chief creative officer of Deutsch L.A., which created the ad. "How do you sell cars from a bankrupt company that a lot of people don't like right now?" The agency, which also worked on Coors Light's "Wing Man" ads and DirecTV's movie-spoof ads, decided to go with brutal frankness, says Hirshberg, "coupled with an honest and credible level of vision and optimism for the future...
Whoa - triple the density? Isn't the goal to ease traffic, not to add to it? What can be hardest for people to wrap their minds around is that to undo sprawl - and the traffic and smog and environmental waste that come with it - we might have to build a lot more on top of it. Right now, nearly half the land in Tysons is either roadway or parking. The new incarnation will be less car- and more people-oriented. So instead of there being stores and offices set back from the road, with parking in between, new mixed...