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Leahy's experience in the business is hands-on. Armed with an M.B.A. from Syracuse University, he got a commercial pilot's license, then worked as a Piper Aircraft salesman for seven years before joining Airbus Industrie North America in 1985. ("Boeing seemed like a superpower," he says.) After rapidly working his way up through the sales and marketing departments, Leahy was named president of the U.S. subsidiary in 1994. During his American stint, Leahy saw the annual number of Airbus sales to North American carriers rise from 40 to 329. In 1996 he moved to the Toulouse headquarters with...
...Although plans for the pilot program have been turned down, Tufts administrators said the decision does not preclude allowing same-sex rooms sometime in the future...
Tufts University last week rejected a pilot plan for coeducation dorms that it had been considering for several months. The university had considered testing the idea with 10 co-ed rooms...
...Serbs knew the exact flight path of most NATO bombing sorties in the first weeks of the war (before NATO dramatically curtailed the number of officials who had access to its bombing plans), the Western alliance would have been unlikely to get away without losing a single pilot...
...jaunts around the world, which she often takes with her twin sister Rowena. Her latest trip took her to India, the Netherlands, Singapore, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, among other places. And she doesn't take the touring coach. As might be expected of the mother of a fighter pilot, she straps herself into a fire-engine-red BMW. She logged 7,200 miles on her latest road trip, which is why she has run through three other cars over the years. At the end of each adventure, she leaves her roadster somewhere in Europe so it will be ready...