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...temp. After Poland's Prime Minister Leszek Miller yanked away economic control and transferred it to economy minister Jerzy Hausner, Grzegorz Kolodko became the second Finance Minister to quit during Miller's troubled 20-month administration. Kolodko warned that Hausner would destroy attempts to control deficits - jeopardizing euro membership. Some analysts, already spooked by Poland's shortfalls, agreed. "It's a mixed blessing," says Jos Verbeek, a World Bank economist in Warsaw, who hopes economic policy will at least be more coordinated. But Kolodko was controversial, and many business leaders are glad he's gone. "The environment in which...
...called fractional-ownership program. These services do, however, make customers prepay for blocks of flight time. Among the biggest carriers of this type are Delta AirElite Business Jets, a wholly owned Delta subsidiary based in Cincinnati, Ohio; Marquis Jet Partners of New York City; Sentient Private Jet Membership of Norwell, Mass.; and Bombardier Skyjet, based in Fairfax, Va. Through Delta's AirElite service, which launched in February, customers pay a minimum of, say, $144,500 for 25 flying hours in a six-passenger Lear 60 business jet--and get frequent-flyer miles on Delta. These providers tend to specialize...
...help in monitoring cell-phone calls and e-mails, Yusuf was able to throw an electronic net over the Karachi neighborhoods where terrorists and some of Pearl's kidnappers lurked. "Al-Qaeda isn't like a social club," he says. "They don't have a posted membership list." What he did find was a link between al-Qaeda and two virulent Sunni sectarian groups?Lashkar Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad?which had trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often, says Yusuf...
...that has been knocked down," Frawley says. "And instead of just pulling the old tree up, we want to plant new seeds." Frawley says the new force will be drawn from all regions of the country; unlike Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated? military,? the corps will be ethnically diverse. Membership will not be open to senior officers from the old Iraqi military or members of the Republican Guard - a group that may make up as much as half the former Iraqi forces. And while the rest will be eligible to join the new units, Frawley says the U.S. also hopes...
...didn’t want to restrict membership,” Chew says. “We never issued an official statement representative of everyone...