Word: keeping
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...Just as alarming amid falling confidence: lower levels of trust in banks make customers more likely to yank their money, according to the survey. More than a tenth of those polled said they'd done just that during the crisis, preferring instead to keep their cash at home, despite the obvious dangers of doing...
...reality is that we live on a planet where new, potentially dangerous diseases are constantly emerging. Over the past six years alone, we've seen SARS, a more virulent bird flu and now H1N1, not to mention countless other pathogens that have escaped public notice but still keep infectious-disease experts lying awake at night. Thanks to the efforts of the WHO, we've built a remarkable early-detection system for new diseases - one sensitive enough to catch major threats and minor ones - and we should be rational enough to heed its warnings without acting as if the sky were...
...shrinking pool of tourists, naturally, is good news for anyone still vacationing. To shore up the Southeast Asian market, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have cut visa fees and worked with airlines, hotels and tourist sites to slash prices. Caribbean operators say deep price cuts have been essential to keep the region in people's minds during the turmoil. Some Caribbean resorts have cut prices in half, while Elite Island Resorts - the second-largest independent hospitality group in the region - will even accept guests' depressed stocks as payment; the firm values stocks at their closing price...
...keep in mind that most U.S. hotels, hit hard by 16 months of recession, will not oblige you enthusiastically if you try to cancel. "Right now, they don't have the leverage, or give, they've had in the past," says Lalia Rach, the dean of New York University's Tisch Center for Hospitality and an expert on the global hospitality industry. "I'm sympathetic to travelers, but it is a business. In New York, people are still going to work...
...Read "Why Border Controls Can't Keep Out the Flu Virus...