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After high school, one of her first jobs was in a mail-order company where women made $3 an hour for working the line. Boe decided to load mail trucks with the guys for a 50-cent raise in pay. At 21, she was driving a meat truck around the North Shore, braving slaughterhouses and blood-covered butchers to haul crates of beef. Not long after, she was driving 18-wheelers. All jobs that relatively few Smith students have on their college resumes...
...Microsoft's great news that it had beaten revenue expectations for the quarter was tempered by the fact that it would also record $2.6 billion in investment losses, bringing their 42-cents-a-share earnings back down to 1 cent per share. The stock popped $4, or 6 percent, in Thursday-morning trading...
...quickly lost altitude. By last December, a new injection of cash was necessary to keep the company afloat. SAirGroup, whose overall business was facing disastrous losses, started pumping $45 million a month into the ailing French company but was unable to convince Seillière to cough up another cent. Though officially the majority shareholder, Seillière insisted that he was only a financial partner and that SAirGroup was responsible for managing the crisis. Declared the baron: "We are not the pilot in this matter, we are the passenger...
...network operators will follow Vodaphone's lead. The Anoto concept gives them a cool new service to offer subscribers - and a way to collect new fees. Paper-makers, naturally, are sold on the prospect of turning their centuries-old product into a digital tool for a fraction of a cent per sheet...
...slow down at work, and everybody heads for the hills, or the beach, or even overseas - on a plane. Over the last few summers, airlines have seen their 'load factors' - the industry term for how much of the plane is packed with passengers - soar to near 90 per cent. With new measures in hand to prevent overloading the air traffic system, and given how well the carriers seemed to have handled this Memorial Day holiday (You didn't even hear a peep on the news of delays and canceled flights, didya?), the airlines are happy to see the temperature rise...