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...quarter of operating costs, airlines are particularly vulnerable to rising oil prices. But with crude rising to more than $49 per barrel on Aug. 20?compared with an average of $20 per barrel over the past 15 years?few businesses in Asia are unaffected. Although there was a sigh of relief as the price fell back to about $43 last week, oil is still more expensive than it has been in the past 20 years?and the realization is sinking in that Asia may have to learn to live with higher energy costs indefinitely. With OPEC producers struggling to pump...
...among Iraqi Shiites - a fact that has led the interim government to stress that even after three weeks of violent defiance, it wants to draw Sadr into the political process, for the simple reason that he's too dangerous to them outside. Indeed, the government will quietly breathe a sigh of relief if Sadr emerges from the standoff unscathed, because if he'd been killed during the battle his followers would likely have waged a low-intensity guerrilla war against the U.S. and its Iraqi allies for the foreseeable future...
After an eternity lasting 104.71 seconds, Thorpe's hand touches just ahead of Hoogie's and the thousands of Australians sigh and slump exhausted into their seats. Two rows down, a portly woman is gasping for breath. "It's harder work up here than in the pool," she says. The air is cool now, but her husband is dabbing with his athina 2004 cap at streams of sweat. "My bloody oath," he replies. Strangers are toasting each other with plastic cups of Heineken, tough-looking businessmen with smiles so wide you glimpse the children they once were...
With that news, the Harvard basketball community can let out a collective sigh of relief as big as the man they were rumored to have lost. You’ve got it: a seven-foot, 250-pound sigh of relief...
...Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever and calling him a Siamese during a recent Larry King Live had alarmed even Republicans, but the revelation that it was "just election-year politics" has allowed Washington to breathe a sigh of relief. "I'm satisfied that the matter is neither unfair nor dangerous," pronounced former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, shortly before addressing the annual convention of the American Kennel Club on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love of dogs...