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...pressure from major hotels' and airlines' own online operations means Web-based operators "need to be big," says Evolution Securities analyst Robin Chhabra. "Scale is very, very important." No need to remind Sabre's rivals. U.S. firm Cendant, which swallowed up U.K.-based ebookers last year, and Expedia's parent IAC/InterActiveCorp could yet come up with counterbids for lastminute.com. Also in line to team up are American online stockbrokers. Sliding trade volumes and fierce competition for fees point to "further consolidation" among America's online brokerages, Joe Ricketts, chairman of Ameritrade Holding, admitted last week. Ricketts hailed his firm...
...size of Sinopec’s Sudanese venture pales in comparison to that of PetroChina’s parent, the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which has poured billions into the East African country, according to Peter S. Goodman, the Shanghai bureau chief of the Washington Post...
...Sinopec is essentially a contractor, whereas [PetroChina’s parent] CNPC actually owns the lead shares in the consortium that runs Sudan’s oil patch,” Goodman wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...Everywhere, teachers fume about parents who think their child can do no wrong. Faced with overwhelming evidence of bad behavior over many years at several schools, some parents won't budge, screaming victimization instead. In his days as a principal, it would reach the point, says P.P.A. president Pryor, where he'd say to a parent: "Do you really believe that this teacher, when he's showering in the morning, thinks to himself, 'Today I'm going to make life as tough as possible for your child?'" A high-school teacher in Wollongong chided a boy who'd been ducking...
...search for more harmonious teacher-parent relations, interested parties are brimming with ideas. Some parents are less concerned about raw teachers than about older, jaded ones. "Education departments need to give these teachers options to move on and do something outside the classroom," says the P. & C.'s Brownlee. "We're too narrow in our thinking." Some schools issue to parents written guidelines on how to approach teachers, explicitly forbidding bad language and threatening behavior...