Recent surveys suggest that only half of all companies in western Germany and only a quarter of those in the east are now bound by industry-wide settlements.

ECONOMIST: Germany

The Kennemerland, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship that was outward bound from Holland to the East Indies.

BBC: Drumbeg

It may paradoxically be easier to help east Europeans than those bound by the euro's no-bail-out rules.

ECONOMIST: Germany

The charter flight, which took off from Southampton Airport on Tuesday bound for the East Midlands, was redirected to Gatwick Airport at 0013 GMT.

BBC: Stoke players in plane emergency

While the bulk of Indian exports is buffalo meat bound for Middle East and Southeast Asian markets, the growing middle class in Arab countries has sparked a new craving for cow beef.

CNN: Growing beef trade hits India's sacred cow

Boyd cautioned against reading Delta's emphasis on expanding its international business as a sign it will cut back on domestic routes, arguing that more international flights enhances the domestic operation by creating more demand to shuttle Europe-bound passengers to East Coast airports like Atlanta and New York.

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The West Coast ports are clogged, so Moorman thinks more container ships carrying Asian goods bound for the Midwest and East will dock east of the Mississippi.

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And if ACC-bound Syracuse gets bounced early in the East, so much the better.

FORBES: Georgetown Carries The Weight Of New Big East Into Tournament

Helen Abel, a solicitor from East Finchley in north London, was stuck at Heathrow on a plane bound for Sri Lanka for almost 11 hours on Saturday.

BBC: Heavy snow and ice bring travel chaos across UK

Boeheim, meanwhile, says that, yes, he feels intense loyalty to the Big East, the conference that started with seven northeastern teams in 1979 and was bound together with the promise of short road trips, member schools with a lot in common and a focus on basketball in a football-centric college landscape.

WSJ: Boeheim plans on being back at Syracuse