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Sure, Cornell might be a team on the rise, and its defense could be particularly stingy. Yale might still have the firepower on offense to outscore anyone in the league. Dartmouth might benefit from newly returned coach Buddy Teevens and his possible insiders edge in terms of recruiting the football hotbed of Florida...
...oldest joke in the airline business is that to make a million bucks, you have to start with ten million. In a business with five percent margins even in good years, the combination of bloated personnel costs, poor labor-management relations, high fuel prices and the rise of pesky low-fare, good-service airlines like Southwest have all helped drive the old legacy carriers into the red. Now two of them, Delta and Northwest, have declared bankruptcy; another, much smaller airline, Virginia-based Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which...
...Bankruptcy, of course, is not the end, especially if you?re in the business of air travel. Two carriers flying today, Continental and America West, actually recovered. But the rise of the low-cost carriers, who now account for a quarter of all passengers in the air, up from less than 10 percent in the late 1990s, means that the big name carriers don?t dominate as much as they used to, which could be one reason Washington is resisting a bailout like the billions of dollars given to airlines since 9/11...
...even though Fiske's years of consulting make him "the most inside outsider he could possibly be," in the words of COO and vice chairman Len Schlesinger, Fiske sees the fact that he didn't rise through the ranks of the Limited as a strength. "I'm not constrained by the way things have always been done," he says...
...summer that saw the rise of Ryan Fitzpatrick ’04 to the St. Louis Rams’ active roster and the U.S. Open breakthrough of James Blake ’01, two of Crimson baseball’s own became professionals...