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...industry--has been a hallmark of SIA's management. CEO Cheong Choong Kong, 61, who will leave the airline in June, has run the show for nearly two decades, having worked his way up from an assistant manager for reservations. After taking over in 1984, he moved aggressively to stretch the airline worldwide; he was the main proponent of Singapore's successful push to become the first Southeast Asian country to sign a bilateral open-skies agreement with the U.S, in 1997. This treaty lets the airline fly to any American city and has inspired similar agreements throughout Asia...
Nonetheless, some aviation observers are wondering whether SIA has lost some of its polish. SIA's attempts to stretch overseas through passenger-airline investments in India, the Philippines and New Zealand have turned sour. SIA took a $157 million loss on its investment in Air New Zealand. And a 49% stake in British-based Virgin Atlantic, bought in 1999 for $1.6 billion, has lost, by some estimates, almost two-thirds of its value, though many analysts think the deal will prove profitable in the long...
...Friar’s Club Roast: Hire celebrity impersonators to roast you and your friends in your common room. $100 doesn’t stretch too far, so instead of a Dane Cook impersonator, you might have to actually put up with Dane Cook...
...we’re not satisfied with one.”Delaney-Smith, however, was encouraged by the squad’s victory, especially because Harvard went winless in its first six games of last season and was just 2-11 during the non-conference stretch.“We’re very happy. This feels funny. We didn’t do this last year,” Delaney-Smith said. “It’s absolutely great—I’m going to go have a lemonade. I’m going...
...result of the fight over party grants, however, the College now has significantly more leverage to challenge UC expenditures. This was not a victory by any stretch of the imagination, although certain self-congratulatory members of the UC would have you believe so. In fact, students’ rights, to the extent that they even exist at a private university, would probably be more extensive today had the UC never engaged the administration at all and simply agreed not to reimburse students for alcohol...