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...those of Swissair into a new company, London-based Airline Management Partnership, with the goal of cutting costs - only to be hit by huge start-up fees and bills that appeared inflated, according to testimony given by John Lindekens, one of the few Belgians in a senior position at AMP. For example, he said Sabena's in-flight magazine had been funded entirely by advertisements until AMP took over and began charging the carrier $1.4 million per year for it. AMP also billed Sabena for 9,000 "irregularity kits" with toiletries for stranded passengers at a cost of $5.50 apiece...
...think our stuff might be a little water damaged,” Johnson joked as firefighters pulled a badly burned and waterlogged guitar amp out of the back...
...Before last week's free fall, Tyco shares (with dividends reinvested) had still gained almost 400% in the decade since Kozlowski took over and turned the company into a merger machine, according to Harvard Business School associate professor Robert Kennedy. Along the way, Kozlowski snapped up electronics manufacturer AMP, security firm ADT and medical-products maker U.S. Surgical...
...blaring The Girl from Ipanema, and the Osbournes don't like it one bit. But this is not the best part of the episode. The family retaliates by blasting death metal on the stereo (while Ozzy snores away, his slumber safeguarded by decades of standing in front of deafening amp stacks) and throwing a ham over the hedges. But this is not the best part of the episode either. No, the best part is when a bleary-eyed Sharon and Jack reminisce about their favorite old neighbor: Pat Boone. "He was just the best person ever to live next door...
...group together. The Saturday after the school notice went up, six or seven Mount Temple students appeared in the Mullen kitchen. "Some people could play," Mullen remembers. "The Edge could play. Adam [Clayton] just looked great. Big bushy hair, long caftan coat, bass guitar and amp. He talked like he could play, used all the right words, like 'gig.' Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band...