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...that he needed to convince some of France's most wildly militant workers and their unions that they had everything to gain as partners with management and everything to lose as adversaries. In France? Bonne chance. Yet Air France employees are less grumpy campers (they're still French), and the company is reaping the rewards of labor peace and French élan in the skies. The notoriously dysfunctional bad boy of air transport earned $1.2 billion in the fiscal year that ended in March 2006, on sales of $28.2 billion, and $1.62 billion for the first three-quarters...
...three, four, five days at a time." That paid off last month when Hill helped secure North Korea's agreement to eliminate, in principle, its nuclear-weapons program--a deal that infuriated the Hellhole Gang's hard-line rivals. And yet even with Cheney's decline, the hawks could gain the upper hand again if countries like Iran and North Korea rebuff U.S.-backed diplomatic proffers. "I can't remember a time when there were so many challenges around the world confronting our country simultaneously," says Burns. "We think we can handle them. We've got the diplomatic firepower...
...20th century programming. But the Internet is a transformative thing, and so with it we’re really trying to step up and catch up to the other colleges that we’re currently so far behind.”According to Koenigs, HRTV is finally gaining momentum. “Ivory Tower” is currently in its latest online season, with the third episode set to debut on Sunday, March 11.“Crimson Hookups,” a dating show, is about to film an all-male episode, and “Respectively French?...
...extensively. In his 2006 book “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok devotes a chapter to the subject of undergraduate writing, drawing from a four-year study conducted by Sommers between 1997 and 2001. The study tracked the writing of 400 students to “gain a better understanding of the role writing plays in a college education,” according to the Expos Web site...
...well known that ADT leads to weight gain through increased body fat deposits as well as diabetes. All of these raise the risk of heart disease,” Tsai said...