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...partners with management and everything to lose as adversaries. In France? Bonne chance. Yet Air France employees are less grumpy campers (they're still French), and the company is reaping the rewards of labor peace and French élan in the skies. The notoriously dysfunctional bad boy of air transport earned $1.2 billion in the fiscal year that ended in March 2006, on sales of $28.2 billion, and $1.62 billion for the first three-quarters of the current one, an increase of 31%. Those results have been built on regained passenger confidence, the allure of Paris as an international...
...said it would use, Pete & Gerry’s, is U.S. Department of Agiculture Organic Approved, meaning that it does not use irradiated materials or genetically modified organisms, and only feeds 100 percent organic feed to its hens. Furthermore, the new facility would be closer to Cambridge, reducing transport carbon emissions and naturally extending HUDS’s existing “buy local” campaign...
...very quickly became captivated by what I saw: a picture of a sheet-white body in a coffin, a description of the last hours of Arredondo’s life, a letter to his parents from a naval transport en route to Iraq, and, most chillingly, a line in Arredondo’s life story that said he had enlisted at age 17. As I examined the coffin, the military boots, and the dog tags arrayed on the truck, the soldier’s father, Carlos Arredondo, walked...
...advocates at NyayaBhoomi say the real crooks are the city officials. "Politicians have left no stone unturned to portray auto rickshaw drivers as dishonest, cheats and rude. The reality, however, is that they are the victims of the same political games that have played havoc with the entire public transport system of Delhi," reports NyayaBhoomi's website. "There are scores of other problems which the politicians do not want to address. The result is that in spite of cheating you, most auto drivers live in slums or resettlement colonies. Their children are forced into child labor. Thousands of auto drivers...
...changing those sort of attitudes may take more than just a fare increase. "You cannot expect these people to change overnight," concedes Rakesh Agarwal, a spokesman for NyayaBhoomi. "We realize that now. This behavior is ingrained into their DNA." Enforcing regulations might help, but the Delhi transport authority seems less than enthusiastic about policing faulty meters and following up complaints about rude drivers. According to the Hindustan Times newspaper there are currently more than 71,000 complaints pending against "errant auto drivers", more than the total number of auto rickshaws in all of Delhi. Last year authorities inspected fewer than...