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...There are many potential Boonlerds and Jaafars out there to fuel the rise of budget airlines. Fernandes estimates that only 6% of all Malaysians have ever set foot on a plane; in Indonesia, a mere 1% of its 238 million people has. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers. As incomes rise steadily around Asia, industry analysts expect air travel to grow more than 5% a year across the region over the next two decades, with growth of more than 8% in China...
...share in another oil company, Sibneft. Putin himself encouraged such optimism, saying in mid-June that the state had no interest in bankrupting Yukos. But in late June, Yukos officials and diplomats say, Putin went silent and the government attitude inexplicably changed. A court decision gave Yukos a mere five days to pay $3.4 billion in back taxes, fines and penalties for 2000. Two days later, bailiffs "arrested" the firm's accounts, froze its assets, and refused payment in Sibneft shares. A similar bill for 2001 quickly followed; two more...
...Donato warmly reflected on his own time at Harvard and his expectations for the future, the emotion in the room transcended mere satisfaction or joy, making the collective expectation quite clear...
...champion of the oppressed in general against the great American hegemon but also to make it in particular the champion of Arab aspirations against American imperialism. Even the left-leaning French newspaper Le Monde criticized Chirac for acting the "killjoy" in Istanbul. But Chirac's behavior was no mere outburst. It is a strategy for a French future. Chirac is charting a course - a collision course with America. Istanbul was just one accident scene. There are many more to come...
...Pancakes chain of restaurants; of cancer; in Los Angeles. He built the first blue-roofed IHOP in Los Angeles in 1958 and turned the business into a $40 million conglomerate by 1970. But three years later, a recession and tightened credit forced him to sell his stake for a mere...