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What Bangkok Airways does have in common with the Western regionals is that it also makes money. Despite a slight dip in October, earnings were up 33% last year to $2.7 million. Says CEO Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth: "We've been growing at least 20% a year since we started regular flights...
...YORK TIMES headlined its downbeat Page One story GAINS OF '90S DID NOT LIFT ALL, CENSUS SHOWS. The story cited data indicating that 9.2% of families were deemed poor in 2000, only a slight improvement from 10% in 1989, despite the decade's surging economy. Huge growth in immigration paralleled the economic gains, the paper said, creating "a barbell economy of extreme haves and have-nots...
...With his slight build, shock of gray hair, spectacles and bow ties, the 75-year-old who will deliver this year’s Commencement address looks more like a gentleman than a ruffian...
Prevented by my slight stature and my academically driven parents from excelling in athletics, I began to follow professional baseball, basketball and football religiously. Jordan, Maddux, my precious Blue Devils—those larger-than-life athletes all fulfilled my athletic aspirations, and I was content to cheer from the other side of the television...
Meanwhile, Trinity swept Cornell but suffered a slight hiccup in the semifinals, beating Princeton 7-2 to set up the long-awaited rematch...