Word: deltas
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...turn into big savings. All the major airlines have hedged fuel prices since the 1980s, but as the major carriers have run into financial difficulties in recent years, they have no longer had the cash--or the creditworthiness--to play the oil-futures market. Last year Delta held positions but was forced to sell them in a short-term cash crunch. Those hedges would have protected about a third of its fuel needs. Continental has no hedges in oil-futures contracts this year. United Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2002, has 30% of its fuel hedged...
Immelt played offensive tackle for the football team at Dartmouth College. In New Hampshire, he was also president of the now-abolished fraternity, Phi Delta Alpha, vice president of the interfraternity council, and a member of the secret society “Dragon...
...floodplains of Soc Trang province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each...
Cocktails in the sky just didn't seem like enough to Joanne Smith, who, as marketing chief at Song, the budget arm of Delta Airlines, added novel customer activities--from an in-flight exercise program to an interactive trivia game that pits passengers against one another. Since taking over as Song's president in January, Smith, 46, has kept moving, sprucing up the menu and giving every employee her cell-phone number to solicit complaints and troll for new ideas. She spoke with TIME's Jeremy Caplan about what's next on the horizon...
Soon after Halim got to Camp Delta, he tried to end his life again. He thought he could scrape enough paint chips off the cells to eat all at once and do himself in, but it only gave him an upset stomach. Then for a while it appeared that he was starting to improve--until the day he requested a razor in the shower, supposedly to shave his body hair. It seemed insane to me that a detainee who had twice tried to kill himself would be allowed to take a razor into the shower. But at this point, things...