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...including US Airways, in 2003. The result is a still flabby industry dominated by legacy airlines that can't make decent money. Flights today are usually 80% full, but average profits on tickets--what the airlines call yield--are down 24% since 2000, according to AirlineForecasts, an aviation consulting firm. Major airlines have lost or written off $50 billion in the past five years, and two of them, Delta and Northwest, are still in bankruptcy...
...reports surfaced in August that Sony-made lithium-ion batteries had an occasional tendency to fry Apple, Dell and other laptops, the boss of the sprawling Japanese media conglomerate was having a great year. For four quarters, Sony had beaten financial expectations (though it wasn't always profitable). The firm was leaner, following more than 10,000 job cuts and the closure of nine factories. The consumer-electronics division was back in the black. And the movie studio was riding high, led by The Da Vinci Code. Meanwhile, investors had sent the stock up more than 8% through July...
Through it all, Gerberding has stood firm. "The CDC was not broken," she says. "The reason to undergo this [reorganization] is that the world was changing so dramatically." As for charges of political interference, she is unapologetic. "This is a public-health agency, and by its very nature, we're never going to satisfy every single constituency," she says candidly. "I tell [Administration officials] this is the science. This is the recommendation. What they do with it is beyond my control...
Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) dominated the agenda at yesterday’s Committee on House Life meeting (CHL), as committee members heard a presentation on HUDS’s operations from the independent consulting firm Higher Aims, LLC and discussed ways to improve the residential dining system to better accommodate students’ schedules...
...viewer’s ears. Were you very involved in that?DA: Yes, but all that comes with a lot of people talking about the movie’s message for a long time. It is all about collaboration, and working with great people. THC: Your film is firm saying that aging is natural. But that’s not what you did with your production. You thought CGI aged quickly, so you went for macro photography and Peter Parks’ filming chemical reactions. So where do you stand? DA: (Laughs) I am OK with film being immortal...