Nobody believes that Alexander Lukashenko won 80% of the presidential vote in the Belarus elections – which is why there was fighting on the streets of Minsk this weekend. The chaos irritates Russian President Valdimir Putin, who has long wanted Belarus to remain closer to Moscow than Europe. But Belarussian …
Read More »Delta Air Lines bought an oil refinery. It did not go as planned.
Such problems apparently have no factor in Delta’s thinking when the airline paid $ 150 million for the struggling Trainer refinery, which had concocted ConocoPhillips six months earlier, and indicated pressure from imports, weak demand and regulatory costs. The refinery, which began in 1912 as a wooden structure and has …
Read More »In Summertime: How Mungo Jerry Made a Swelling Classic | Music
Ray Dorset, singer, songwriter I still had a day job at a lab when the melody for In the Summertime entered my head. The lyric took 10 minutes to write. When I was young, my family always went to Hayling Island, Hampshire, for vacations; big business with about 20 of …
Read More »American Airlines is once again holding hot food service in airports lounge, albeit with new protocol
Travel and lifestyle journalist Francesca Page on how standards for air travel will shift due to coronavirus. Could this be a promising sign that the airline industry is recovering from a turbulent year? American Airlines will be offering hot food at its airports from the Admirals Club’s airports in the …
Read More »Could an NC mall land an Amazon distribution button? Here is the last one
Amazon can replace closed department stores at wrecked malls. The company is in talks with Simon Property Group, the largest shopping center in the United States, to convert earlier than current JCPenney and Sears stores into distribution centers to deliver packages, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. According to her …
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