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...only way to get Cathay's 25,000 employees working in harmony. The cabin crew, ground staff, gate agents and customer-service reps for any given flight are always different, so "every time you a have a flight that takes off, you have a new group thrown together for a project," says Jeremy Perks, a director in Beijing for IWNC, a corporate-team-building firm that has worked with Cathay. When those teams break down, Cathay is vulnerable to the same problems facing every other airline. For example, in June a mechanical problem delayed a Cathay flight in San Francisco...
...expansion of health-care funding for low-income children, Perino found herself in the unenviable position of arguing that Bush does not want children to suffer. As Congress and the courts push back on Bush's tactics for fighting terrorism, his advisers are struggling to find solid legal ground for everything from harsh interrogation techniques to domestic eavesdropping, leaving Perino to explain their compromises without admitting past errors. "The relationship between the press secretary and the media is always going to be adversarial," Perino says...
...Iraq, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who said recently that national leaders had been incompetent in their prosecution of the war. At first, Bush seemed to give the ex-General a pass, saying, "I admire General Sanchez's service to the country." But then he said, "The situation on the ground has changed quite dramatically since he left Iraq." If you wanted to be generous, you could read that as meaning Sanchez' criticisms are out of date. But the other obvious meaning is, "Things have gotten a lot better now that he's no longer in charge...
...issue: the government's plan to require most public sector employees currently covered by "special regime" retirement schemes to work as much as 2.5 years before they qualify for full pensions. Thursday's strikes opposing that reform are anticipated to be the largest since 1995, when France ground to a halt for an entire month when the conservative government sought to ram through the same pension reform...
...generations, English schoolchildren have revered conkers, the game in which two competitors each wield a horse chestnut attached to a string and take turns trying to smash the opponent's. Played primarily in September and October, as the requisite nuts ripen and fall to the ground, it's an autumnal tradition - and victory is the stuff schoolyard dreams are made...