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...unlike the perpetually inflamed former Indiana basketball coach could be installed in a newly created post of FAA chief operating officer to break through the institutional gridlock--from the Environmental Protection Agency (which evaluates environmental impact) to the Department of Transportation (which approves new airlines and routes). The COO has to behave like an air czar. "Somebody needs to knock some heads," says Bob Francis, a former FAA official who was vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board...
...gone flat. Noncarbs, which generally command higher prices, now account for more than half of all industry growth, according to Sanford Bernstein & Co. No wonder, then, that every beverage maker is feverishly working to come up with cola alternatives that promise to be healthy, not just refreshing. Norm Snyder, COO of SoBe, says, "Before, the big boys were just watching from the sidelines, but now they're betting on it with their dollars...
...piercings and a sex-god image, and the songs have likewise improved since the days of such musical mistakes as "Stand By My Woman" and "Mr. Cab Driver." In fact, the seductive "I Belong to You" is so sexy that most women will probably melt upon hearing Kravitz confidently coo: "I belong to you/You belong to me, too." Also included are familiar tunes from recent times: "Are You Gonna Go My Way," "American Woman" and the broken-record-like "Fly Away...
...ambitious plans--are just as much the product of modern management, led by chief operating officer Giovanni Geddes da Filicaja, 55, the first executive from outside the family. When he joined the firm in 1995, Geddes brought his experience as CEO of the Italian subsidiary of Remy-Cointreau and COO of Antinori wines, one of Frescobaldi's toughest competitors. "Giovanni brought a more professional mentality," says patriarch and chairman Vittorio Frescobaldi, 70, with a laugh. "We needed to change the mind-set." To do that, Geddes hired staff from the likes of Procter & Gamble and Arthur Andersen to work with...
Three weeks ago, Xerox issued its fourth profit warning in little over a year, telling already wary investors that sagging sales and high costs would cause its first quarterly loss in a decade and a half. Allaire and president and COO Anne Mulcahy, his recently anointed heir apparent, who were unavailable for comment last week, candidly admitted to analysts that the company has an "unsustainable business model...