Word: field
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...Virgin faring in the recession? Fares on international routes in particular are down across the industry. Well, Virgin America is a great airline and we're very proud of it. If you can create the best airline in your field, it's going to do well. Long haul is tougher because business class has collapsed. But Virgin Atlantic is 25 years old this year. We've been through 9/11, SARS - you name it. And fortunately we've built up the financial capabilities to deal with these tough years. We're just having to tighten the belt until the good years...
According to a Washington D.C. lawyer with expertise in corporate governance who declined to be named to protect his client relationships, any potential reforms are sure to face a concerted challenge in court over whether the SEC has power to regulate in this field...
...interested in studying American art with the same kind of investigative intensity and contextualization as those experts in better-entrenched areas of art history. “Harvard was very late to the study of American art, and I think it’s an exciting moment for the field to have Harvard go from having zero tenured faculty in the field to having two,” said History of Art and Architecture Professor Robin Kelsey, a fellow American art expert who received tenure this past January. “My own enjoyment of getting tenure would have been...
...State Department has long characterized extended sleep deprivation by foreign countries as a form of torture, though Bradbury in his memo dismissed this fact as not providing "controlling evidence" on the issue of contemporary standards. The U.S. Army Field Manual, which regulates military interrogations, also prohibits extended sleep deprivation, but Bradbury dismissed this standard as failing to provide "dispositive evidence" of the government behavior...
...During the legislative debates in 2005 and 2006, McCain argued against applying the Army Field Manual rules to the CIA, saying intelligence agencies should not be constrained by military rules. Upon taking office, President Obama announced that the CIA would be limited to the field manual's techniques. Obama also began a process to review the possibility of adding additional methods, beyond the field manual, for the interrogation of high-value detainees...