Word: sos
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...Australian Stock Exchange after buying a company in Perth that operates Western-style medical clinics in Asia. MedAire, which is based in Tempe, Ariz., made the acquisition in an effort to grab a bigger slice of the estimated $1 billion medical-assistance market for travelers, with Singapore-based International SOS gobbling up some 40% of the industry's revenues...
...name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. He deplores the blunders of the Americans, but rejects the I-told-you-sos of the so-called peace camp...
Alien tells the story of a crew of space explorers whose return to earth is postponed when they receive an SOS signal from a nearby planet. Ordered to investigate, they discover a damaged spacecraft infested with thousands of alien eggs. When one of the eggs hatches and its man-eating inhabit arrives aboard the humans’ own ship, the crew endangered and a mutiny nearly breaks out when Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) tries to get the crew to leave, despite the new weaponry it is believed they might find...
...Through what it calls its "alarm centers"-and there are 14 of them in Asia, from Shanghai to Saigon-International SOS acts as the medical-service provider for American Express platinum cardholders, and some Visa cardholders, as well as private and corporate clients. The members-only section of its website attempts to furnish these clients with the information they lack, tracking every virulent pox and security scare in the region. To browse it is to enter a landscape of meningococcal meningitis and dengue fever, of bush wars and (inevitably) the increased risk of terrorism...
...traveling CEO getting ill or injured under International SOS protection, there are accredited hospitals and vetted doctors, personal isolation units ("for short ground- or air-ambulance trips") and preapproved golf courses to recuperate on ("because we also have a concierge service...