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...Lufthansa staff if we are to avoid an operating loss this year." Weber said North Atlantic advance bookings were down 34% in October, 10% in November and 30% in December. "As soon as we recognize that a route in the next six months is not a money earner, we need to remove it immediately," he said. The airline will also raise fares to help pay for added security measures. KLM, the Dutch airline, introduced a $5- per- flight surcharge last week and plans to boost fares to the U.S. and the Middle East by 5% from Oct. 16. Some...
...chance to buy an apartment from the government at cost and to take out a no-interest loan to pay for it. As a result, every Singaporean is a homeowner and has a stake in the society. The housing complexes contain take-out restaurants designed to cater to two-earner households, grocery stores, day-care centers, old-folks homes and other facilities designed to make the housing complexes into communities. An individual living in the complex can even resell the apartment on the private market to pay for a home somewhere else. We in the U.S. could...
...class spouses" who have "difficulty controlling their reproductive tendencies" may have given the wives of military personnel a bad name [NATION, July 16], but it's not just Army wives who are stereotyped. Poor women of all types are seen as unstable baby factories. Regardless of what the wage earner does, if the salary isn't enough to pay for child care, then the spouse cannot afford to go to work. What appears to be a military problem is a symptom of a larger class problem. How about affordable, high-quality child care for the military and the rest...
...than five years from now. The main near-term relief comes in the form of a reduction in the lowest tax bracket. The plan would cut the tax rate on the first $12,000 of income for couples ($6,000 for singles) from 15% to 10%, reducing almost every earner's tax bill...
...hardly surprising that the Isle of Man works hard to demonstrate that its offshore business is clean and tightly regulated. It has to: financial services - banking, insurance and asset management - account for 42% of the island's income. Its former big earner, as a seaside resort for the British, lost out decades ago to cheap travel and the Costa del Sol, and though there is farming, fishing and some light industry, it is the island's status as a tax haven that powers the economy. Being an offshore center these days means living under constant scrutiny from industrialized nations anxious...