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McCain is trying to make up ground too. He plans to relaunch his website within the next two months, adding many of the interactive features it lacks, including ones that will allow supporters to arrange house parties or write letters to the editor. The campaign is also banking on the historically superior volunteer efforts of the Republican National Committee to narrow the disparity in ground support. In 2004 the committee helped organize an estimated 1.4 million volunteers, many of whom responded to an online get-out-the-vote operation...
...customers in a different set of cities--but they can work together as needed. Virgin Atlantic, V Australia and Virgin America, for example, plan to share a first-class lounge at LAX and thus reduce overhead. Virgin America, V Australia and Virgin Blue can decide on a whim to allow some of their flight attendants to trade cities for a year or compare notes--as their CEOs did during lunch with Branson in Los Angeles--on in-flight-ordering software or customer feedback on the latest Embraer jets. Coordinated online booking among the airlines is the next logical step...
...father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...lining some sexist employer’s pockets. Because women are the only ones who can have children, they are more likely to take time off to care for those children, losing experience and seniority. To devote more time to family, many women choose fields that allow greater flexibility in their schedules, and, consequently, pay less...
...says that crafting a concentration specifically targeted in his field of interest facilitated his applications to graduate school.STRADDLING DISCIPLINESFor most special concentrators, however, it is the desire to explore interests in the present that drives their decision, not plans for the future. Although secondary fields and joint concentrations also allow students to study different disciplines, it is only in special concentrations that students can combine their interests into a single course of study. “We should be gravitating toward more interdisciplinary studies rather than away from it,†Singerman says. “There...