Word: majority
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...decorum? Airlines run a virtually free, open bar in first and business class, where some of the nastiest episodes occur. The booze is supposed to keep customers calm but may be having the opposite effect on some. Others say being deprived of a different vice, cigarettes, is a major cause of unruliness. No wonder Austrian Airlines has said it will offer nicotine-substitute inhalers to passengers once a soon-to-come smoking ban takes effect. Then there are those who blame the airlines themselves. Says Hal Salfen, of the International Airline Passengers Association: "Flights are full, there are fewer flight...
...Asia, joint ventures with comparable local firms are the way to go, say many experts. "There are really a lot of bargains available," says David Emery, Dun & Bradstreet's managing director for Southeast Asia. He cites one example of a Swiss company that bought a large share of a major Thai Internet provider at roughly half what it would have had to pay only a little earlier...
...mergers- and-acquisitions team in Singapore to be headed by Richard Gnodde, one of its top specialists. Jon Corzine, co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, adds that the firm is planning to start a "recovery fund" targeted chiefly at Asia. Goldman's Asia president, Philip Murphy, indicates a major target will be consumer goods, which many others also consider an attractive field for U.S. investment. One reason is that some Asian companies are reorganizing their countries' chaotic distribution systems, replacing mom-and-pop stores with modern networks of warehouses and big retail outlets, but need outside cash to finish...
...guards were posted at the front and back of the building, and nervous security officers convinced their ambassador, Prudence Bushnell, to fire off a letter to Albright warning that the embassy was vulnerable to car bombs. But Nairobi's remained low on the priority list of embassies due for major security upgrades...
...fact of life at Harvard that people of talent, who duly earn a good reputation for their work with students here, are attractive candidates for major positions at other institutions", Lewis wrote. "That is what happened in this instance...