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Rather than rest on those rankings or trim passenger amenities as its U.S. rivals are doing, Singapore Air plans to spend $100 million by June to improve its business cabins, mainly by adding beds on every long-haul plane in the fleet. Despite these investments--and unlike most of its competitors--government-backed SIA is making good money. Profit of $358 million made it the second most profitable passenger airline in the world in 2001, behind only Southwest Airlines ($511 million). For the six months ending last September, the latest period reported, profit was $443 million (at least...
...even after a bit of trouble in the early races. “It was disappointing to see how we started the regatta, but we rallied pretty well on Saturday afternoon and Sunday,” Kovacs said. “Third was a decent finish, especially considering this fleet was arguably more competitive than the fleet we see at the national championship.” In B-division, Harvard didn’t fare as well behind the efforts of juniors Jon Garrity and Kerry Anne Bradford and sophomores Drew Robb and Michelle Konstadt. Garrity and Robb shared skipper...
...screen. Its backers, like Dan McCrea, head of the Florida Voters Coalition, insist bills like this are necessary to get states to move to optical scanning, even if they are understandably reluctant to trash their investments in DRE. McCrea calls that foot-dragging the electoral equivalent of "buying a fleet of Pintos whose gas tanks you later find out blow up on you, but insisting you're going to keep using them because you spent all that money on them...
...Locals call the U.S. vessels moored on the edge of the harbor - three support tankers and a scouting boat - "the ghost ships." Once part of the James River Reserve Fleet standing ready to respond to a national emergency, the 12,000-ton behemoths were decommissioned in the 1980s and 1990s and tugged across the Atlantic after a Hartlepool ship-breaking firm, Able UK, won the contract to recycle their steel, promising to create 1,500 jobs...
...citing concerns that the work would otherwise go to unregulated docks in the developing world - that the council relented. In late October, it granted Able UK permission to recycle the ships, but the delay has cost the firm a contract for a further nine James River Fleet vessels, and Friends of the Earth is considering appealing the decision on the remaining four...