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Ryanair plan for cheap flights to US in 3 years

RYANAIR boss Michael O'Leary aims to launch a transatlantic cut-price airline within three years. He has always said Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, would not launch an intercontinental operation. Instead, he plans to...

Microsoft, Expedia are listed among 700 WaMu creditors (at bizjournals.com)

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) - by Washington Mutual has filed a list of nearly 700 potential creditors in its bankruptcy case, ranging from Seattle-area companies such as Microsoft Corp. and online travel agency...

Shouldn't someone at WaMu pay?

"I'D APPRECIATE your thoughts," a reader writes, "on why senior executives (and corresponding board of directors) with WaMu, Wachovia, Lehman Brothers, etc. shouldn't be held criminally liable (as in the case of Enron,...

Ryanair 'cheap US flights in three years'

Robert Lea, Evening Standard He has always said Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, would not launch an intercontinental operation. Instead, he plans to back a new venture using the no-frills, lowcost, cheap-fares...

Aer Lingus set to axe third of staff

By Kevin Done, Aerospace Correspondent Aer Lingus, the lossmaking Irish airline, has set itself on a collision course with its ground services staff and cabin crew over a radical restructuring plan aimed at reducing its...

Asset Markdown Hits Equity Firm

J. Christopher Flowers has carved out a reputation as a deft turnaround artist of struggling financial institutions. He now must apply those skills to his own firm, private-equity shop J.C. Flowers & Co. On Friday, Mr. Flowers...

Governor: State to crack down on ORV violators

SALT LAKE CITY -- Gov. Jon Huntsman said off-road vehicles are destroying the state's natural beauty and he plans to crack down on those that stray from trails. "It's an abomination, it's an embarrassment," Huntsman, a...

Fixing Africa in The Plague of Good Intentions -- Looking At Development Issues in a Refreshingly...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 1, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The companies Tom Epley touched turned into gold; evidenced by his brilliant career in making over a dozen failing companies successful again. A key element of his success...

TPG stuck with nothing after chasing payday

When David Bonderman, co-founder of TPG, led a group that invested $7bn in Washington Mutual earlier this year, he was taking a page out of a playbook developed during the US savings and loan (S&L) crisis of the 1980s...

JPMorgan Chase to Buy Washington Mutual

In a deal brokered by the federal government, JPMorgan Chase will pay $1.9 billion for deposits and branches. WaMu depositors will be protected Washington Mutual's long, drawn-out struggle to find a buyer came to an end...

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