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...this is no-frills, no-nonsense Oz, after all, and visitors to the valley can expect, instead, 4:30 a.m. wake-ups for the predawn launch, a dress code of jeans, caps and collared shirts to protect heads and necks from the heat of the flame, and a Balloon Aloft pilot who greets bleary-eyed voyagers by saying, "You may assist us by lifting the baskets off their trailers...
Named president of Hughes Electronics-owned DirecTV last June, Austin, 44, was tapped to keep the sagging satellite network aloft. This month the company reported it had added 405,000 customers in the fourth quarter of last year. The challenge now: to keep the momentum and protect her staff, as EchoStar seeks to acquire DirecTV...
British Airways has seen its profits fall to $7.3 million for the third quarter, compared with $290 million a year before. Belgium's Sabena is bankrupt and has suspended operations and Swissair, also bankrupt, has remained aloft only with government help...
...halting rhythm of the military operation has complicated the Pentagon's sales effort and exposed some early assessments as naively optimistic. Nonetheless, the American public's support has stayed aloft. "It's not a tough sell right now," says a top Rumsfeld aide. "If you had an election on the war in America, we'd win it hands down because the wounds are fresh. But they won't be fresh six months from...
Fuel to stay aloft...