Word: copings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swissair, $1.7 billion in the red last year, said it lost another $40 million from interruptions in scheduled flights to the U.S. "There was definitely a fear of flying," said Swissair spokesman Jean-Claude Donzel. "We don?t know when we can expect the turnaround." To cope with the crisis Swissair was forced to draft plans for its second restructuring in five months. The airline will now concentrate on higher-margin business travel in Europe and scale back its long hauls by 25%. Swissair said it would cut 3,000 jobs at its catering subsidiary, Gate Gourmet, and merge with...
...piano-boogie with songs like “One Angry Dwarf and Two Hundred Solemn Faces” and “Song for the Dumped.” But on their second album, the band began to delve more deeply into themes of loss and inability to cope with life which had only been hinted at in their first album. The more emotional side of the band soon started a chorus of comparisons to other piano rockers like Elton John and Bily Joel, although Folds himself claims to have more similarities with Randy Newman. Songs like...
...claim you’re doing it for the “love of the game.” I think there’s more to it than that. You don’t know how to cope with life outside of the spotlight. Becoming a general manager only got you so much attention before you learned that no one cares who manages a last-place team. So you needed something more...
Ridge's task is not only to anticipate and prevent terrorist attacks but also to cope with them when they happen. That means coordinating not just federal agencies but countless state and local ones as well--"too many pieces," says James Lee Witt, who headed the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Bill Clinton. And their needs are enormous. When Congress offered $100 million to local fire departments for disaster preparedness last year, Witt notes, $3 billion worth of requests poured...
...period of total shock for Edgar, but he slowly became acclimated to high school life and went on to become Student Council president and voted “Most likely to succeed” by his high school class. “I found the best way to cope was to keep busy, because then I didn’t need to think too much about what had happened”, he confides. He goes on to say, “I started making friends and became involved in school activities…I think that really helped?...