Word: pound
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...years, Southwest has grudgingly played on the airline-industry team. It has long been a member of the Air Transport Association, the Beltway's 800-pound lobbyist gorilla that for years has been aggressive - and successful - in defending major airlines' interests. But not a happy one, and in 1997, after a few instances of getting what it thought was the brush-off from several members of Congress, the notoriously independent-minded Dallas-based airline broke down and opened its own lobbying office in the nation's capital...
...accusations of non-delivery on promises, arrogance, spin-doctoring and being too focused on his public image, and to a lesser extent on taxes and crime. The only issue on which the Conservatives are clearly ahead is Europe - the scope of European Union powers, and on preserving the pound rather than going over the Euro. But Europe ranks fifth or sixth in importance on the list of voter concerns, and on crime, the economy, taxes, public services, health and education, Labor is either ahead or more or less even with the Tories. And Blair has promised a referendum on Europe...
...glamorous Channel Islands, is less evident in this wind-battered scrap of land lying roughly equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. "We have a northern, gritty approach to things here," says John Cashen, chief financial officer to the Manx Treasury. "We have to work harder for every pound...
...either side would want an agreement out of this meeting, because their positions seem so intractable. Clearly they reached the agreement last week because both sides want to pound on the tables this week and show how tough they are. I think it's highly unlikely the Chinese would return the airplane before they could scrape every last bit of intelligence out of it. And I don't think the U.S. could make any promises on backing out of surveillance flights...
...from Gaza into Israel; Israel for the first time reoccupying territory ceded to Arafat under the Oslo agreement - neither Sharon nor Arafat has a strategy to transcend the increasingly violent impasse. Arafat can harass and occasionally provoke the Israelis, but he can't alter the strategic balance; Sharon can pound and pummel Arafat's resources but he can't subdue Palestinian militancy. So even as violence increases, politically the situation remains at a stalemate. And that's likely to mean Secretary of State Powell will find himself devoting more of his time than he'd intended to the intractable conflicts...