Word: rodding
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...layoffs after Sept. 11 as well as the cancellation of 10% of its flights. The North Atlantic normally accounts for 37% of British Airways? revenue - and nearly all its profits. "We face exceptional conditions which have forced us to take very tough decisions," said BA?s chief executive Rod Eddington. Even before the terrorist attack, Merrill Lynch had forecast BA would earn $94 million this year. "Its breakup value is higher than its market capitalization currently," said Colin Hill, managing director of Avmark International, a commercial aviation consultancy. Even Virgin Atlantic said it was cutting 1,200 staff, its first...
...Corker Q. Picker ’02-03 intern at the Washington Institute of Sticking a Rod Up Your Ass this summer or what...
Soon after the September 11 attacks on the nation, Fred Phelps of the 213-member Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas rushed to write a press release. By the next day, it was already posted on his church’s website, www.godhatesfags.com, declaring: “The Rod of God hath smitten fag America...
...we’ve become a lightning rod,” Messing said. “Other people were too shy to talk about...
...risks of uniting two struggling behemoths were obvious, even to Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, who sketched out the company with a few buddies 19 years ago in a Houston diner. "Now everybody will want to kick Compaq and HP around," he said last week. He was right. But it wasn't Michael Dell or Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy putting the boot in. Wall Street did a good job of that. HP stock plunged 22% by the end of the week, to $18.08, while Compaq sank 14%, to $10.59, wiping more than $3 billion off the value of the proposed...