Word: pichet
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...Convincing drivers will not be easy. "This kind of thing is an occupational hazard," shrugs Pichet Sorpoon, a Bangkok cabbie who has stopped to watch as victims of the crash on Pattanakarn Road are carted away on stretchers. His sentiment is shared by Ahmad. When it comes to intractable road hazards, he says: "You just have to live with it." In the coming years, it seems inevitable that millions of Asians will have to die with...
...slashed by Margaret Thatcher two decades ago, some are outraged at a 40% rise in central-government administration costs over the past five years - more than three times the inflation rate. In France, dozens of successful businesspeople have quit the country to avoid a steep wealth tax that Eric Pichet, a business-school professor in Bordeaux, estimates has resulted in €100 billion of assets leaving France - robbing twice as much revenue as the wealth tax generates. Among the advocates for change is Paul Kirchhof, a former judge at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, who has sparked a national debate...