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Kerkorian's childhood, rough and rootless, may have instilled in him that lifelong drive to get ahead. Born to Armenian immigrant farmers in Fresno, Calif., he moved at least 20 times as a kid, his parents often struggling with the rent. In junior high, he was expelled for fighting and truancy. After dropping out, he learned to box ("Rifle Right," they called him), and during World War II he shuttled planes across the Atlantic for Britain's Royal Air Force. Back in California, he bought and sold refurbished aircraft and started an air service ferrying gamblers from Los Angeles...
...about single mums staying at home, ordering pizza and watching a dvd with her kids." Maybe. But is easyGroup really changing everyday lives? Would anyone choose to use all of the easy services? Seeking answers, I headed for Milton Keynes to spend several days in easyLand. I started by renting an easyCar. In a hardscrabble part of London's Stockwell neighborhood, I met a satisfied customer; "If the only thing against it is where it's located," said Karl Anderson, a 32-year-old New Zealander who was returning his rental car, then the online booking system and cheap prices...
...divorced—she’s now dating a demolition worker—and her two children, nowhere near infancy, live with her husband. Besides, she’d never own a house: the mortgage and upkeep are just too risky compared to the month-by-month rent of an apartment. The other women agree. Of all six, only Sage lives in a house...
...dollar for every time somebody came in to just look, I wouldn't need to sell alcohol to pay the rent," says the manager of the Cow Bar, Peter Larsen, as a group of brightly clad Tibetan women peer into his premises. The Cow Bar (housed in a former barn) and other establishments have become a subject of great local curiosity. "People just can't believe that we're using this animal's den to serve martinis...
...someone living in Bahawalpur? Others have already suggested a system where each individual is allotted an equal “emission space” (to be managed by countries and allocated on a past population level, say 1990 levels). Countries using more than their allocated emissions would have to rent “emission space” from those using less than their allocated emissions. Arguably, this could lead to a self-correcting market where the over-emitters as well as under-emitters would have an equal incentive to maintain low emissions. This, of course, is a notional schema...