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Utilitarian no more, airports go five-star
New York Times, Published on 08/05/2015
» As major airports around the world scramble to brand themselves as luxury entities rather than mere transportation centres, some have adopted a star-ranking system, like hotels. It was inevitable.
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Racist Americans fill Obama's Twitter feed with hate
New York Times, Published on 22/05/2015
» WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama sent his inaugural Twitter post from the Oval Office on Monday, the White House heralded the event with fanfare, posting a photograph of him perched on his desk tapping out his message on an iPhone.
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Dangerous hygeine problems found at LAX airline-food preparer
New York Times, Published on 10/06/2015
» WASHINGTON – A federal inspector on a routine visit to food-service facilities at Los Angeles International Airport in January found conditions that, she wrote, could compromise the safety of food meant for airline passengers.
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Los Angeles declares a 'homeless emergency'
New York Times, Published on 23/09/2015
» LOS ANGELES -- Flooded with homeless encampments from its freeway underpasses to the chic sidewalks of Venice Beach, municipal officials here declared a public emergency on Tuesday, making Los Angeles the first city in the United States to take such a drastic step in response to its mounting problem with street dwellers.
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Ageing libertine Playboy drops the nudes
New York Times, Published on 16/10/2015
» Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at <i>Playboy</i> magazine, went to see its founder, Hugh Hefner, at the Playboy Mansion.
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Lionsgate seeks to build on film properties with theme parks
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2015
» Three years ago, as the first Hunger Games movie was breaking box-office records, Jon Feltheimer, the chief executive of Lions Gate Entertainment, asked his lieutenants to investigate ways to turn their hit movie into a Disneyland-style ride.
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Symbol of dignified defiance, Suu Kyi sounds provocative note
New York Times, Published on 18/11/2015
» NAY PYI TAW -- For two decades, Aung San Suu Kyi was a radiant symbol of dignified nonviolent resistance, most of that time confined to house arrest by the generals who have governed Myanmar for half a century.
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Chanel chief executive quits over strategic differences
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2016
» PARIS: Twenty-four hours after Chanel’s Paris couture show was called among the best of the season, the company confirmed that Maureen Chiquet, chief executive of Chanel and one of the few women at the helm of a global luxury business, would leave at the end of this month.
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Iowa caucuses begin the long, slow US election
News, New York Times, Published on 01/02/2016
» The presidential race hurtled over the weekend toward a watershed moment: voting that will start to reveal the true depth of Americans' desire to cast aside traditional politicians and Washington-style compromise and embrace disruptive outsiders appealing to their passions.
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Cruz wins Iowa GOP caucus
New York Times, Published on 02/02/2016
» DES MOINES, IOWA — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, powered by a surge of support from evangelical Christians, handily defeated Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, throwing into question the depth of support for Mr Trump’s unconventional candidacy.
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