Word: upstart
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...going to be stuck on the tarmac by Thanksgiving. But far from all the chatter about bankruptcies and cutbacks, a few enterprising carriers are quietly soaring. Discount pioneer Southwest is readying its first transcontinental flights, from Baltimore, Md., to Los Angeles, starting this fall, while New York City-based upstart JetBlue is adding more flights on the West Coast and in Florida. These and other discount carriers today account for 20% of domestic air travel, up from...
...every road death there are afterquakes, shocks that ripple out through families, offices, friends, public and private purses. Road trauma is also off-road trauma. Here's an example, I suspect a mere variation on the average 110 cases every day in the E.U. When I was an upstart of four, my father was traveling at night on a lonely road in Western Australia, his business colleague driving. A car came over a rise with its lights on high beam. Half-blinded, my father's colleague instinctively pulled off the road. He hit a parked trailer, almost sheering...
...subject to 10-year term limits and annual elections. The terms should not be staggered, so shareholders can throw out all board members at once if they wish. Companies should be required to give shareholders election materials about rival candidates; as it stands, small investors who want to wage upstart campaigns don't stand a chance...
...decision leaves the e-book field at least temporarily open for an upstart publisher, Rosetta Books, which has licensed electronic-publishing rights to more than 100 books directly from authors. Although consumer demand for e-books is uncertain, Rosetta hopes to become the publisher of choice by persuading consumers to download books online for less than they would have to pay in a store. Protests Linda Steinman, director of litigation for Random House: "This is a directly competitive product. It makes sense that the e-book rights should stay with the original publisher...
Some investigators and stock analysts say they find it difficult to believe that a hands-on CEO like Ebbers--who was tight with Sullivan--didn't know of the accounting tricks at WorldCom. Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore says his office investigated Ebbers when WorldCom was an upstart known as LDDS and found him playing loose with the rules. Ebbers' employees made a series of $200 campaign contributions to a local politician and were illegally reimbursed by the company. In 1995 WorldCom pleaded guilty to a felony charge and paid a $120,000 penalty. Moore says the evidence "showed that...