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...move to outsource government, begun under Ronald Reagan and accelerated during the Clinton years, has been a spectacular boon to northern Virginia. The once green region offered land, few restrictions on business and a transport hub in Dulles International Airport. The presence of the Pentagon, that greatest of cash-spewing economic-development engines, was the clincher...
London's continued rise is by no means assured, of course. Efforts to unclog its congested transport network are long overdue, and Wall Street may be reenergized when proposals aimed at making it cheaper for firms to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley come into force, perhaps as early as this year. And consolidation among other exchanges - the New York Stock Exchange's $14.3 billion deal with pan-European operator Euronext is just one of a string of mergers in recent months - could make it tougher for the lse to stay ahead. For now, though, with two dozen of Broadgate Tower...
...downed C-123K had been used in 1984 by the CIA and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration in a sting operation designed to show that the Sandinistas were dealing in cocaine. The CIA's hand is evident in other secret air operations related to the Nicaragua conflict. Southern Air Transport is a Miami firm that was wholly controlled by the CIA until 1972. The State Department confirmed that it had used Southern Air to fly part of the legal $27 million in nonmilitary supplies from the U.S. to the contras. The department said it had no responsibility for the fact...
...legislative panel that inspected the site on Jan. 21 said the construction of the tarmac may have been substandard, adding to a lengthening list of problems surrounding Suvarnabhumi's launch-including widespread graft allegations-and prompting Thailand's Transport Ministry to order an independent inquiry into the cracks. IOT, the Thai-Japanese contractor for the airfield surface, denied any defects in construction, blaming the damage on excess groundwater from recent floods seeping under the concrete...
...eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First Aid and an entire section on criminal law. Testifying to the tenacity and endurance of Somalia...