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...model seems like a logical one, though. A single-class cabin streamlines onboard service and crew training, and using smaller jets, like 757s, instead of 777s, lowers fuel and maintenance costs. So the new entrants can offer competitive premium service at a reduced price...
...globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First Lady Laura Bush watched a replay of the Michigan--Ohio State game onboard during a 36-hour day that saw the couple in Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta and across the international date line on their way to Hickam Air Force Base adjoining Pearl Harbor...
...other words, now that Big Money is onboard, hedge funds are playing it safer. "Historically, the people who were giants of the industry were unusual, dynamic and hard to classify," says Yasho Lahiri, a partner at law firm Baker Botts in New York City, who represents hedge funds and investors. "Today people want repeatable process...
Hedge-fund manager James Chanos of Kynikos Associates started a Washington-based trade group this year and so far has 18 fund managers onboard. He has testified before Congress and has been trying to explain that the issues the legislators are raising also apply to other financial players, like the trading desks of big banks, which are essentially internal hedge funds. The message is that taking hedge funds as shorthand for all high-risk investments is failing to see the larger picture. "The business is just too big and too high profile for Washington to ignore anymore," he says...
...people onboard the Cirrus SR20 plane, Lidle and a flight instructor, were killed when the state-of-the-art plane plowed into a 42-story New York apartment building. Though initial reports indicated that the plane issued a distress call, in a late-night press conference Deborah Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board did not report such a call. Hersman said the NTSB was just beginning its investigation, including looking at the aircraft, the engine and the actions of the pilot...