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...dramatically this year. Two major U.S. airlines--Delta and Northwest--turned to bankruptcy court to cut costs and delay pension-fund contributions. This followed earlier bankruptcy filings by United Airlines and USAirways, both of which jettisoned their guaranteed pension plans. Then on Oct. 8, the largest U.S. auto-parts maker, Delphi Corp., filed for bankruptcy protection, seeking to cut off medical and life-insurance benefits for its retirees. Delphi's pension funds are short $11 billion. To Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor who specializes in bankruptcy, this is just going to get worse, as ever more companies...
Forget Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Rainforest Crunch. The next hot new flavor at Ben & Jerry's Homemade could be called Lock-'n'-Load Rocky Road. The quirky maker of superpremium ice cream began the new year by scooping up gun-industry executive Perry Odak to fill a two-month vacancy as its new CEO. Odak most recently was chief operating officer of U.S. Repeating Arms Co., the maker of Winchester rifles, and he brings 25 years of consumer-marketing savvy to Ben & Jerry's (est. 1996 sales: $175 million), which could sorely use some executive firepower...
...prominent researcher and health care policy-maker argued for a universal health care system for America yesterday at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH). Kenneth Olden, former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, spoke to a full lecture hall of about 50 people at SPH’s Boston campus. The lecture, entitled “Health Care in America: It Is Broken; It Can Be Fixed,” was the second in a SPH series that began last year on diversity and disparities in health. Olden, a tall, bespectacled African-American with a resonant...
...adding a dash of competition. Beirut’s popularity has proven to be an irresistible draw for Big Beer. Budweiser and Miller Brewing Co. are beginning to sponsor tournaments for what used to be a dorm-room game. “Bud Pong,” as the maker of the world’s second worst beer (after “Natty Ice”) calls it, is actually—get this—designed to be played with water. Players are encouraged to drink a Budweiser on the side. That way, Bud can have its beer...
...After choosing 24 designs from more than 300 sketches, Remele had to find a pattern maker and production team...