Word: nascent
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Singapore threw its weight behind the nascent Asian low-budget airline industry last month when it approved a new terminal at Changi Airport dedicated to discount carriers. There will be no bells and whistles: travelers will have to walk across the tarmac to board planes after the $26 million terminal opens in 2006. Low-fare carriers have been promised savings of about 20% on terminal-related costs. So far only Tiger Airways has signed on, but authorities hope the terminal will handle about 2.7 million passengers a year. Singapore, however, will face competition from neighboring Malaysia, which is finalizing plans...
...that anyone was expecting that the hand-over of authority would, in itself, turn things around in Iraq. U.S. officials insisted, instead, that it was the necessary starting point to putting Iraq's security in Iraqi hands. But the nascent Iraqi security services are some way off from being in a position to succeed where the U.S. has failed in snuffing out the insurgency. On the one hand Allawi's government has adopted tough new emergency powers that will allow for martial law, curfews and detention of suspects without due process; it has launched security sweeps through some areas - ostensibly...
...Haitians' urgent desire for self-rule? Possibly because as a slave owner and the leader of slaveholders, he could never reconcile dealing with one group of Africans as leaders and another as chattel. So Haiti's independence remained unrecognized by Jefferson, who urged Congress to suspend commerce with the nascent republic, declaring its leaders "cannibals...
From 1953 until his death, Plimpton edited the prestigious Paris Review, nurturing the nascent careers of Jack Kerouac and Phillip Roth...
...even a soft landing will be felt around the region. The mainland's 40% import surge in 2003 was the spark that ignited Asia's nascent cyclical rebound. When China slows down?as it likely will within months?a chill will settle over Japan, Asia's newest recovery story. Surging exports to China accounted for 32% of total Japanese-export growth in 2003. Japanese capital spending is also being driven in a significant way by capacity expansion in those industries trading with China. With annual private-consumption growth remaining anemic at about 1.5%, Japan has very little cushion against...