'Show me the money'; dollar-hungry businesses squeezed in Lebanon
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cars line up to fill their tanks but the worker at the gas station in Lebanon's capital city waves them off, standing by the 'Strike!' signs. "No fuel today," he shouts.The day of industrial action, replicated at petrol pumps across the country, was not really about fuel, it was about the dollars needed to pay for it, or rather the lack of them."We don't want a crisis ... the sector is bleeding," said Fadi Abu Chakra, a spokesman for fuel distributors who led the strike this..