Word: carriers
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...AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Rumsfeld's strategic planners think the current carriers are slow, easy targets. The 21st century may demand smaller, faster ships. He'd like to eliminate one of the Navy's 12 carrier groups--6,000 sailors, five support ships, 80 planes. The Navy is trying to avoid that scenario...
...Cedric, an 18-year-old Swiss student, smokes dope regularly with his friends on trains, in the streets and parks of Geneva, even during high school recess. "The teachers know about it but don't say anything," he says. In Marseilles two months ago, 20 crewmen on the aircraft carrier Foch had consumed cannabis so flagrantly on board that a military court had to punish them but handed out only suspended sentences. Judging by the fragrant smoke wafting around the ship, the crewmen estimated that two-thirds of their shipmates were equally guilty...
...terms the social architecture of a wide range of species--their breeding behavior, gender dominance, caste systems. "In a Darwinian sense," Wilson wrote, "the organism does not live for itself. Its primary function is not even to reproduce other organisms; it reproduces genes, and it serves as their temporary carrier...
...priority: jettisoning the airline's partnerships. First to go was Air Littoral, a regional French airline that was sold to its management, eliminating $90 million a year in losses. Corti followed up by bailing out of another regional French carrier, AOM/Air Liberté, which was also generating millions of losses. "The exit from France should further reassure our stakeholders that we are committed to resolving loss-making minority airline participation issues and to fully focus on our core airline business, Swissair and Crossair," Corti said...
...management in place, a new business strategy and a new name - or, rather, an old one. Symbolically, Conti dropped the unevocative SAirgroup and changed it back to Swissair. That's a good reminder of the task at hand: getting back to the basics of being a midsized European carrier - and a profitable...