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US airline Frontier wants to charge passengers up to $138 to social distance

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As part of that new system, Frontier travellers must check their temperature, attest that neither they nor anyone in their household has exhibited Covid-19 related symptoms for 14 days and wash their hands or use sanitiser before boarding a flight on Denver-based Frontier, which is owned by private equity firm Indigo Partners.

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The New Frameworks Philosophy

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“Climate justice and climate response is not a theory to us; it’s a practice,” Ace McArleton, who cofounded the company in 2006, said. The agricultural by-product also contains less embodied energy than other kinds of insulation, meaning less energy is used to produce it.

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Dreams, goals, transitions: How can we get to the future?

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The latter kind of transitions offers us much opportunity for creativity or blundering; and provides us the environment to propel ourselves into the future. I had travelled overland through the continent once, two years previously). My goal: To live through the end of the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe civil war as a journalist.

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Team USA Goes for Gold

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Last week, President Obama established a new national goal–and he wants this one completed in half the time it took us to get to the moon. Obama’s mission for SelectUSA isn’t as awe-inspiring as space travel, but it could have the same transformative effect in terms of economic impact.

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Dispute Boards: An Approach to the Efficient Resolution of Disputes in the Construction Sector

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Standing dispute boards, panels that are engaged for the duration of a project, often require the contracting parties to pay the fees and expenses for three professional engineers and/or attorneys to travel to the project site on a periodic basis and oversee complex technical disputes. Over time, these fees and expenses can add up.

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Holidaymakers face six-month wait for travel refunds as airlines struggle to deal with colossal backlog of claims with £7billion owed to customers

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Millions of travellers owed refunds for cancelled flights face months of chaos amid a crisis in the airline industry. He told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We’re working through the March refunds, that will certainly take us two or three months, then we move to the April refunds, then the May refunds. By Amie Gordon . to £315 million.

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FEATURE STORY: A Life in Publishing – Business Facilities’ 40th Anniversary

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Ted built upon the magazine’s established brand equity as a leading location adviser by moving into the online venue with the BusinessFacilities.com website. Gigabytes Of Shoe Leather. Ed realized that Group C couldn’t thrive being so closely tied to the political landscape. “It It was diversify or die,” he says.