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When Deborah Owen, 53, a partner in a North Hollywood, Calif., accounting firm, took a vacation last August, her days were long. She was exhausted each evening. There were constant deadlines to meet. The work was messy. Oh, and by the way, she can't wait to do it all again...
...Brussels, the heart of the European Union. Even without a majority stake, they were given operational control of Sabena. Sabena's new Swiss CEO, Paul Reutlinger, the former marketing chief at Swissair, began pushing a rapid-expansion policy. During his tenure, from February 1996 until August 2000, Sabena more than doubled the number of passengers it transported, to over 10 million, and added two-dozen new destinations. Its overall capacity grew by 97%, three times the average of European airlines, according to an audit carried out on behalf of Sabena pilots. When it reported a profit in 1998, the first...
...Tibon discusses supplies of food and medicine to the city's 200,000 residents with one of his officers. As he sees it, he has to balance military pressure with the need to avoid "a humanitarian disaster." It's a risky line to walk and Tibon knows it: in August, he sent two soldiers to military jail when they shot dead a municipal electrician even though the man had permission to move about during the curfew. Shots echo up the mountainside at midday. In Tibon's command center, radios crackle with reports that two border policemen have been hit after...
...other European syndicates, sponsors and broadcasters a better tilt at the spoils of victory. Some teams, mind you, may already have tilted a tad too far to grab those spoils. Even before racing started, Seattle's OneWorld syndicate was found in possession of three other teams' design secrets. In August OneWorld told the America's Cup Arbitration Panel the designs were stolen by a former employee. Unconvinced, the panel docked OneWorld a competition point. Still, dueling on the high seas would be nothing without an element of skulduggery. So nervous are the teams about others pinching their keel and rudder...
...Reported by Melissa August, Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/ Washington