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...caught in a nasty squabble over "open skies" agreements that would widen competition on lucrative transatlantic routes. E.U. courts banned the individually negotiated deals between 11 member states and the U.S., saying they should be arranged en bloc. When the U.S. appeared to undercut that decision by offering to sweeten the deals, François Lamoureux, the Commission's director-general for transport, threatened last week to drag into court any state that accepts. But E.U. efforts to draw up a new deal aren't expected to break the sound barrier - and meanwhile, airlines complain, they're left flying...
...brightly lit classroom is part birthday party, part serious academic endeavor. Daniel has brought in pizza and other snacks to sweeten the deal, and the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong drift up from the stereo. Groups of chattering students are sprinkled around the room. Some sit at the round tables covered with paper, markers and other debris. Others are splayed on the floor with their materials spread around them, and a few are cozied up on the overstuffed couches that line two of the walls. Daniel bounds around the room in response to different students’ calls...
...want to enter a plea today of guilty, because this will ensure to save my life," he said as carrot dangling ensued. Concerning September 11, he told the court, "I know exactly who done it, I know which group, who participated, and I know when it was decided." To sweeten his offer of cooperation, he added: "I have many, many information to give to the America people about an existing conspiracy...
...history of modern drug addiction might be said to start, innocuously enough, with a cup of tea. London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded his first taste of "tee (a China Drink)" in 1660; by the early 1700s, as cheap sugar to sweeten the brew poured in from the West Indies, the entire nation was on its way to becoming hooked. Some Englishmen were soon knocking back 50 cups a day. The English East India Company, which held the monopoly on all Eastern imports, saw its tea sales grow from 97,000 kg in 1713 to 14.5 million in 1813, making...
Some applicants try to sweeten the deal with desserts—fruit cake, carrot cake and chocolate chip cookies—some of which are gratefully consumed by the admissions staff while reviewing applications...