Prime Minister
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Netherlands, U.K. To Use Body Scanners
Monday, the Dutch government announced it would buy an additional 60 scanners. Meanwhile, last Sunday, British prime minister Gordon Brown announced in a BBC television interview that scanners would be introduced in the United Kingdom as soon
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ACTE/BTN's Corporate Travel World Reporter's Notebook: Buyers Brace For Managing Demand
concerned," said Ambassador John Bruton, European Commission head of delegation to the United States and former prime minister of Ireland. The EU is calling on the United States to loosen restriction on foreign ownership in U.S. airlines
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Washington Wire: TSA Vows Cargo-Screening Compliance
countries said in a joint communiqué this month. U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and Australia Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile announced their intention to negotiate an expanded agreement that would increase passenger flights between
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The Norwegian government will purchase carbon dioxide emissions quotas
"to offset the pollution caused by international air travel by government employees," according to Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office. Separately, Norwegian energy company Statoil--which last year began buying CO2 quotas to counter
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Malaysia Creates Capital City, Opens Hotels
of Kuala Lumpur and within 12 miles of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, recently became home to the nation's prime minister and a major mosque. The city, described by the government as "Malaysia's first intelligent garden city," will
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Malaysia Makes High Tech A Priority In Two New Cities
complete until 2010, Putrajaya is already a working city that includes a green-domed office complex housing the prime minister and his staff, about 5,000 residential units, schools, a university and a wetlands park with a nature interpretive
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Washington Wire - 1999-04-12
U.K. Discuss Talks</B> U.S. Department of Transportation secretary Rodney Slater and U.K. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, meeting in Washington, D.C., in mid April, will discuss the prospects for resuming aviation
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BA-AA Pact Still Faces A Web Of Regulatory Hurdles
agreement be reached before AA-BA is approved. BA chairman Robert Ayling reportedly already has met with the new deputy prime minister and head of transport, John Prescott. Although there is no indication of Labour's exact position, a spokesman
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Suppliers Team Up To Serve Small Companies In Italy
discount, regardless of their travel budget. Is this unfair to some of the larger clients, such as Gucci, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Finninvest and Andersen Consulting, which could argue that because they provide much of the

