Задайте вопросы к тексту (3 общих и 3 специальных вопроса) Counting the ways to bridge the gulf.
As more carriers open up more routes, travelling to and arollnd the Middle
East has never been easier.
Edmond Moutran, the 63-year-old
Chairman and Chief Executive of Memac Ogilvy & Mather, the multinational advertising and communications company, should know. The Lebanese executive reckons he spends 60% of his working week in the air. 'I spend 200 days in Beirut, 40 days in Dubai, 40 days in Bahrain and 25 in the
UK. I also spend one week in each of Cairo, Jordan, Jeddah, Riyadh,
Kuwait, Tunis and Algeria. I go to
South Africa once a year, Barcelona once or twice a year for conferences and I go to Paris four times a year.'
He says his choice of airline is dictated by convenience, but his preference is for Middle East Airlines and its 'new aircraft and equipment, and well-trained, fresh and energetic staff'. His second choice is Gulf
Air, with Emirates third, followed by British Airways and Air France.
He always travels with his wife.
Liliane, who worked with him until very recently, and prefers to travel first class. He also uses business class. He says he will travel economy 'in an emergency' .
He uses airline lounges. '1 want good chairs, plenty of newspapers and television. Airlines that spend millions on decor and have uncomfortable chairs really need to look at themselves.
'MEA gets me a car to the airport and they open a special counter for me as an individual,' he says. 'Staff take your boarding pass. check you in and walk you through to the lounge.
The airline saves me abollt an hour o f standing i n line. I t shows real respect.
You don't really get this extraspecial treatment on other airlines.
With MEA, it's the whole process
- that's why I ' m so loyal to them.'
So what annoys him most about flying? 'The attitude of crew and staff sometimes,' he says. 'If they're tired of their jobs, they should give il up. I also dislike the casual attitude of ground staff. Employees should be trained to cope with customers who have problems.'
Mr Moutran says that problems with ground staff are one of the reasons he hales (ravelling to the US. 'No one 4 ever has time 10 answer a question there,' he says. He also doesn't like the lack of openness shown by airlines when there are problems and delays.
I disagree with people, who think so. Books - is just one of many tools for the knowledge of being, which has no absolute advantages over other means, such as your own work, communication with intelligent people, lucid dreaming, traveling and so on. I'll just try to guess it what things some people find books dignity; then I'll tell you, what to my mind is the "best source for cognition of all aspects of life"
Books are customary to us, since recent time books have become a traditional way of leisure activities for the masses of people. Almost all the people pay their taxes, and hence they can use public libraries, so bookish education is affordable.
Furthermore, there are variety of written thoughts directions: we can find reflections about eternity in it, and at the same time there are encountered detective stories and cheap novels.That is to say, on the grounds of moral and intellectual development, one can find any answer to his question.
But the problem consists, that not everyone have the adequate development of creative thinking. That is, not everyone can grasp the whole text of the book in its notional scope; moreover, frequently it's assimilated not what was written in the book, but what was presented by the reader, who, perhaps, can by not quite sober-minded.Thereby it was generated entire sections of ugly information,that infest the information field and which can't entail nothing good.
In my view, the best method of cognizing life - communication with intelligent, skilled, wise people, let us call them "Elders". Elders can explain everything distinctly, and, noticing that if the information wasn't internalized right, they will rush to explain it again.Their knowledge are always based on practice and never are the result of sick imagination.
Well as a good method of knowledge as cognition yourself in persistent labor. Life starts with one person, thus, it’s reasonable to begin life’s knowledge with the cognition of one person. Labor is a check on durability and viciousness, finding strengths and weaknesses. In sum, with communication with the elders, these two methods are more than replace reading any books.
Of course, books are good, but only as an addition to real activity. Life itself can be learned only in the process of yourself exploration.