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...Over in Bangkok, Duncan Palmer, general manager of the Sukhothai, is shrugging bespoke-suited shoulders at what would normally be a terrible occupancy rate of 35% and is waiting for September, when, hopefully, "the real pickup" will come. "Thailand hasn't been affected by SARS as much as China, but we're still tarred with the same brush. People in Europe are going, 'Hmm, darling, let's save Bangkok for next year...
that protected the compound. The second vehicle, a Dodge pickup loaded with explosives, followed close behind. It barreled into a central area and exploded between two five-story buildings. At the nearby al-Hamra complex, two other explosives-laden vehicles were detonated near a pool where a party was in progress. By the time the smoke cleared from the three assaults last Monday, 34 were dead, and 200 more were wounded. The dead included nine Americans and nine of the assassins...
...Costello chose to work in steel mills rather than the coal mines where his father toiled because he believed steel jobs were more secure. Now he is scrapping plans to build a long-planned retirement house and says he will not be replacing his 13-year-old pickup truck anytime soon. "You have to make choices," he says, "between a house payment, a car payment or medicine...
...surveys by employee-benefits consultants. But there's a catch. Most of the new benefits are paid for by workers, the people being asked to do more work for the same--or lower--pay. Each week, for example, some 50,000 workers pay to use Pressed4Time, the dry-cleaning pickup-and-delivery franchise that is part of a growing suite of employer-facilitated "concierge" services. "Companies are adding 'soft' benefits that save employees time as opposed to 'hard' benefits that cost employers money," says John Challenger, who heads an executive-outplacement firm based in Chicago...
...ahead of Chrysler and Ford in standardizing platforms across models, which reduces development costs. The influence of its North American chairman and product guru, former Chrysler and Ford executive Robert Lutz, 71, is emerging: Cadillacs are rolling out with bold designs and high performance, Chevy is launching the SSR pickup convertible, and Pontiac is reviving its 1960s muscle car, the GTO. In areas of engineering weakness, GM is swallowing its pride and outsourcing: Saturn's 2004 VUE SUV will use Honda engines...