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...corporate battle has broken out across the Atlantic in Europe. Call it the "Low-Fare Airline Wars." The dueling companies, Ryanair and easyJet, have always had an intense rivalry, but in recent weeks, the backbiting between the bargain-basement airlines has gotten ugly - and personal. The fighting began when Ryanair launched an ad earlier this year accusing London-based easyJet of trying to hide its on-time flight statistics and depicting the airline's founder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, with an elongated Pinocchio nose. The Greek-born tycoon was not amused. In a statement last month, he lashed out at Ryanair...
...sophomore certainly held up her end of the bargain. Cao took the first set, 6-4, and battled in a second-set loss, 6-3, setting up a super tiebreaker. Juricova pulled away for a 10-4 win, but Cao proved that she belongs on the national stage...
...there's that segment of American car buyers who truly do want an appliance. They don't want their cars to be status symbols; they just want to drive from point A to point B. And there's always going to be a slice of Americans who want a bargain. So in the fall of 1985, people flocked to buy them. (See the most exciting cars...
...that could over time take the currency closer to the $1.15-to-$1.20 range that experts say is its true value. "The return to a euro-dollar balance of under $1.30 by the end of the year now seems possible," French bank BNP Paribas recently reported. Of course, those bargain American vacations Europeans have become used to taking just got a lot more expensive...
...individual Senators, such as the now infamous "Cornhusker kickback" that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson arranged to exempt his state from having to pay additional costs for expanding Medicaid. One possibility under discussion would have at least 51 Senators signing a letter promising to uphold their end of the bargain. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...