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...Moreover, the collapse may dampen excitement over ADP's plan to spend an additional €640 million to expand Charles de Gaulle. The new 2E terminal - and a nearby S3 complex set to open in March 2007 - were designed to bring flocks of new passengers to Paris by offering sleek, interconnecting structures catering to the expanding business plans of Air France and partners including Delta and Korean Air. "Air France is getting more and more successful, with bigger and more significant alliances," says David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flight International magazine. "It has the capacity to expand...
...where Guo was practicing, six-year-old girls from the city tossed themselves off the vertiginous diving platform, their tiny bodies tumbling through the air at up to 60 km/h. The girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit with high-cut legs and a splash of sequins on the rear. One day, they might have been dreaming, they too could rise above the state and blossom into an exquisitely modern Chinese sports star...
...spend half of your income on Starbucks—if you did, you certainly wouldn’t be the only one here—and no one blinks an eye. But should you choose to get half that number of hits a day from a sleek blue and silver can, prepare yourself for a deluge of be-carefuls, watch-outs, you-need-helps—enough counseling to last you a lifetime...
...Lake. The production sounds like typical Wheeldon. The traditionalist in him is embracing the work's essence as a "grand, epic fantasy, the Lord of the Rings of its day." At the same time, the innovator has, he says, found ways to retell the story that make it "beautiful, sleek and contemporary." And this time, no little girls hatching from eggs...
Even coffee shops are getting gussied up. By day a sandwich shop, the chain Cosi by night tries to transform itself into a sleek wine bar. The company lost $26 million last year on this Cinderella transformation, but Cosi's executive chairman, Bill Forrest, expects the new look to be profitable in 2004. Says he: "Our goal is to offer our customer the essence of urbaneness and taste...