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...Guided by then chief financial officer Gary Kelly, the airline assembled a strategy to gird against potentially calamitous surges in oil prices. Two full-time oil specialists at Southwest's Dallas headquarters spent most of their time just watching oil markets and crunching numbers. By the time financial disaster struck the industry, Southwest had signed contracts guaranteeing the airline a certain price for fuel in the future, no matter how high the market climbs...
When your life is briefly a front-page story, the window for profit can be narrow. These three newsmakers struck quickly...
...nonartist friends. Those artists he has befriended have been from an older generation, "where there was no jealousy," he says. More often, Botero says "it has been difficult to have relations with artists of my generation because I was doing the opposite." Yet most who meet Botero are struck by his huge charm and gregarious personality. He trained in Europe in the 1950s, and never became part of the abstract or conceptual art movements, instead sticking to the voluminous figurative style he formed in his 20s. Botero says he first became fascinated with "bolometric" shapes while living in Florence...
...Music, a 25-year-old currently working in non-profit consulting, grew up in Costa Rica and had never celebrated Thanksgiving. At her first dinner, she was struck by how caring her roommate’s younger brother seemed when he lent his sweater to a family friend who complained of the cold...
Some years later, after going on to attend different schools, they met again. Both were assigned to Weld Hall as first-years, and this time, Ms. Gu, now 23 and an economics concentrator in Dunster House, fixed her eye firmly on her middle school acquaintance. Ms. Gu struck up a close friendship with Mr. Zhang during the hustle and bustle of Opening Days...