Word: plush
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...planes and a new concept of service. What perfect takeoff timing for a carrier that is trying to bring pleasure and even style back to flying. JetBlue is low-price and all-coach, like Southwest Airlines, yet hip and sassy, like Virgin Atlantic. In the air, JetBlue offers the plush seats and satellite TV; on the ground, it offers hyperefficiency and--are you ready?--candor about delays. You could call it the antiairline...
Ayisi Makatiani starts his day early, planning his next 14 hours as the sun rises outside his five-bedroom home in an upmarket suburb of Nairobi. In his plush, carpeted city office, the 34-year-old co-founder and ceo of Internet company Africa Online spends most of his time in meetings, answering e-mail from employees and colleagues around the world or talking on his mobile phone, pausing only occasionally to take in the stunning view of Nairobi 16 floors below. Like most cyber-ceos, Makatiani is in a constant hurry to stake out an ever-larger chunk...
...simply opportunism. They realize that Wahid will fall, and believe that if they ally themselves with Megawati, who is fairly malleable, they'll get more in terms of cabinet seats and plush appointments. And they're also gambling that Megawati is very weak, and that she won't last very long, either. Then, other contenders will take advantage of the ensuing chaos to make their own bid for power...
...either. He fills a parliamentary seat that was occupied by his grandfather and father, and last fall he held back from supporting a longtime ally's abortive coup against Mori. There was also a fair bit of back-room politicking on Koizumi's behalf. At a dinner in a plush Ginza restaurant in mid-April, half a dozen conservative stalwarts, including former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, selected Koizumi as their man. "Our backgrounds are different," Nakasone told TIME last week, "but in terms of ideology and policy, he is my protege...
...that you gave to me," but rather lamenting the "cross I bear." I really think my version is much cooler, especially considering there are too few songs that discuss the importance of stuffed animals in our daily lives-i.e. whenever I get sad, I go play with the plush koalas in the Discovery Channel Store.) Anyway, to make a long story short, Alanis helped expurgate long-standing rage-and with this mass catharsis came mass complacency. The Spice Girls were born, TRL helped launch Britney, Christina and the other blonde nincompoops, and angry chic just seemed, well...