Word: gille
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...aide to the House leadership puts it, "the fight is not over." And with that kind of language, the battle over Terri Schiavo's legacy isn't likely to simmer down anytime soon. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty/Washington; Amanda Bower/New York; Dee Gill and Wendy Malloy/Tampa; Tim Padgett and Siobhan Morrissey/Miami; and David Thigpen and Eric Ferkenhoff/Chicago, with other bureaus
...hailed the 43-year-old as "the very best person for the job." Walsh's main accomplishment was rescuing Aer Lingus from bankruptcy after taking over the controls in late 2001. Now "it's the only European flag carrier making money on short-haul" regional flights, points out Joe Gill, research director at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin. Walsh clipped Aer Lingus' staff numbers by about a third and trimmed costs, part of a "culture to pare everything down to the bone," says Gill. But the ex-pilot failed to push through further job cuts before his departure in January...
...twenty years of alternative music. While there were certainly better records released in 2004, the Futureheads were one of the few completely new artists hitting the scene, and since the debut, the buzz over these guys has steadily grown as something to watch. The Futureheads was produced by Andy Gill, one of the original Gang of Four, and it’s an appropriate fit: in the same way that American bands of this young return to rock look back to Television, the Brits have Gang of Four, and their influence is rife over the sound, a slightly more European...
...Margot Gill, administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), says that she and her colleagues plan to try to boost declining application numbers by spreading word of improvements before the next admissions cycle begins...
Noting that the sharks were often in bad shape before they even arrived at the aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first...