With the blessings of the government of Laos and help from international investors, he plans to build more hotels and casinos, housing estates, a motor-racing stadium, tea plantations, an airport and a tax-free banking zone.

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They tightened up a 1996 law that is supposed to extract ten years of taxes from tax-motivated expatriates as they head for the airport.

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Eventually, she rose to senior managing director at Bear Stearns, working in municipal finance and helping the Denver International Airport, the New York State Thruway Authority and other public entities to sell tax-exempt bonds.

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The association that represents the airlines which use Kennedy is protesting that the special tax should be spent on improving the airport itself, not paying for the city's public-transit system.

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