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Dar Al Ber sponsors Umrah for 120 government staff

  Dubai / WAM The Low-income Families Committee of Dar Al Ber Society helped 120 eligible local government employees in the emirate of Umm Al Qaiwain to perform Umrah at its expense. The religious trip, organised in collaboration with the UAQ Council for Youth and Cooperation and 13 other government entities, is one of the12 trips sponsored by Dar Al Ber ...

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Are living standards truly stagnant?

  It may turn out that the widespread belief that most Americans’ incomes have stagnated for years is, well, false or at least overstated. Say what? No doubt, many Americans feel that, except for the rich and segments of the upper middle class, they’ve been treading water economically for years. To take a prominent piece of evidence: In 2015, the ...

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United is feeling the sway of consumers in Asia

  On Monday — Day 1 of the fiasco over United Airlines’s forcible removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight — the stock of United Continental Holdings Inc. actually rallied. Perhaps Americans were outraged by how the passenger was treated, but airlines operate in a consolidated industry where consumers don’t have much choice. Investors seemed to shrug and assume ...

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