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The(1)__ over Davos were said (2)__have darkended last week as 1700 private jets delivered the world's elite to its annual conversation.You can picture (3)__moment :a shepherd's child on an Alpine mountain pointing (4)__one,then two,then a vast (5)__of hawk-like aircraft materializing with their consignment of power brokes,roaring overhead as the sheep scatter in (6)__. % VZ\4+8S
(7)__wait.There is a problem with the awesome scene of inequality.The (8)__reported figure out of 1700 jets is an fantasy.Financial journalist Felix Salmon has done the legwork and estimated the actual (9)__to be about 200.So (10)__ was the inflated figure so eagerly believed?
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The answer (11)__ in the powerful hold of private jet travel (12)__the popular imagination.It is the ultimate symbol of wealth, more (13)__than mansions or limousines or the humble helicopter.It provokes resentment; yet it is also glamorous and exciting.Private (14)__excite the non-private jet-flying classes even (15)__offending them. The result is a combustible combination of moralism and disire. h~t]WN
In Sweden outrage runs high (16)__ the misuse of corporate jets by directors of (17)__conglomerate. Industrivarden. Families were flown (18)__ trips abroad; a plane was sent to Stockholm (19)___ an absent-minded industrialist forgot his wallet.The results is one of the biggest (20)__ scandals in Swedish history.
