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...PLUMBING Safe rooms built on a budget often don't have a toilet. One builder recommends a bucket as a low-cost alternative. Jodie Foster would not approve...
...commercial airlines'] revenues, first-class and full-fare economy flyers, the very people who are in a position to go elsewhere." Solon expects private charter services will continue to grab big chunks of the top-end commercial market, where margins are as comfortable as a first-class seat. Meanwhile, low-cost operators like easyJet and Ryanair will siphon off budget passengers. And that's a squeeze that could keep Europe's big airlines in a tailspin...
...rapid, low-cost military victory in Afghanistan has clearly emboldened the Bush administration to more aggressively tackle some of the strategic priorities it identified on taking office. That meant nobody was particularly surprised at the President's tilt at Iraq, since "regime change" in Baghdad has long been identified as an administration goal. Despite the intent, however, Washington has not yet identified a mechanism for achieving that goal at low cost to the U.S. and to regional stability...
...repeated visits have won her some respect, but nothing approaching real support from those like Josie Suangke, a 34-year-old mother-of-two who refused Arroyo entry into her apartment and refuses now to buy the low-cost rice offered in the neighborhood as part of an Arroyo program. Suangke says she is ready to go back to EDSA or the palace, anywhere that she can give voice to her misery. "I'll join," she says, despite having been teargassed and clubbed the last time around...
...people who know about the finances of fledgling presidential campaigns clucking. A powerful force among Christian conservatives in the late 1990s, Reed was hired by Enron to bang the drum for energy deregulation in Pennsylvania at a time when the Bush team in Austin would have appreciated a low-cost, low-profile way of keeping Reed on their side, off their payroll and yet far from the crowd gathering around Steve Forbes and other conservative rivals. If Rove gave Enron a nudge about Reed--"Karl Rove gave Ralph Reed a good recommendation," said press secretary Ari Fleischer, and Rove says...