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...Airways has valuable East Coast routes and gates and an above-average revenue per seat. But aircraft and labor costs were killing it. Siegel wanted to bring US Airways out of debt without bankruptcy. But TPG, while encouraged by union concessions, was adamant that the airline undergo a thorough restructuring in the courts to write off debt. Texas Pacific is content to wait and work at turning around the airline. "We tend to like complex things. We're problem solvers," says Coulter...
...letter, which arrived the day before the hearing, explained that her $228,000 sale had been "prompted solely" by an earlier arrangement with her broker to sell ImClone's stock if it ever fell below $60 a share. Her attorneys stated that their information was "based on a thorough review of the circumstances...
Furious that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hasn't halted terror attacks on Israelis, the U.S. wants thorough reform of his Palestinian Authority. Mainly, American diplomats are pushing to convert Arafat's presidency to a purely ceremonial post, shifting the real business of running the government to a new, popularly elected Prime Minister. But Arafat has other ideas...
...could not agree more with your assessment of Denver International Airport as the best-run airport in the U.S. [AIRPORT SECURITY, July 15]. I recently had the pleasure of catching a flight out of there. In addition to being extremely thorough, every single employee I encountered was very nice. My ID and ticket were checked three times, and agents actually looked at my face and my picture. Agents asked me where I was from and where I was going. I did not feel as though I was being interrogated, as much as I felt I was being engaged...
...master manipulator?that he received favors from politicians, cajoled officials to interpret the rules his way, brought down endless audits and inspections on his rivals, and reputedly had the power even to make or break governments. In 1985, leaders of opposition political parties signed a letter urging a thorough legislative probe into Reliance over "massive and ingenious schemes and methods adopted by the company in gross contempt of public policies and statutory laws...