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Hertz UK has piggybacked BA's bold scheme by offering 200 free car rentals on April 23. Starting this week, Avis Europe is tempting American drivers with a $21-a-day rate and unlimited mileage. Better still, to buffer travelers against dizzying currency fluctuations, the price is guaranteed in U.S. dollars for up to a full year. The dollar's dramatic 15% rise in value against many European currencies over the past seven weeks is also encouraging American tourists to pull out their charge cards...
...artillery move back into the heights. But otherwise officials argue that possession of territory no longer contributes much to security in a missile-armed age. As the gulf war proved, one serious threat to Israel apart from ground attack is assault by missiles that can whiz right over a buffer zone. Israel, says a Bush adviser, needs "political security as opposed to garrison security," and political security would be achieved by a peace treaty with Syria. The same argument theoretically would apply to the West Bank, but security is only one reason for Israel's refusal...
...Maybe the lack of a concert this semester will be good for us because we'll have somewhat of a buffer for years to come," Kim said...
Kaplan, explaining Heimert's stand on issues such as non-ordered choice, says that the master "sees himself as a buffer, trying to keep things in control...
...Soviet Union is a superpower in military might only. Perestroika has failed to resurrect a moribund economy. The USSR has lost its "security buffer" of Communist puppets in Eastern Europe. And now the Soviet Union itself is threatened by internal collapse. Glasnost has unleashed a torrent of independence movements...