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...ANDREA SCHNEIDER VICE PRESIDENT, ALASKA AIRLINES
Sometimes it's the small things that Andy Schneider finds the most rewarding. Acting as both a mother of four and Alaska Airlines' vice president in charge of operations at 49 U.S and foreign airports, she oversaw construction of a larger, fully staffed room at the airline's hub in Seattle-Tacoma, Wash., in which unaccompanied minors can safely wait for their connecting flight. Schneider also helped improve the process for tracking kids on connecting flights and got TVs and vcrs for the waiting rooms. "Those rooms are improvements that matter not just to our customers," she says...
Four years ago, when she was managing the airline's flight attendants, Schneider gave them universal e-mail access and allowed them to bid for their schedules online, a move that turned out to be a big time saver for the employees and a money saver for the company. A former accountant, Schneider, 37, moved through management of the in-flight service department to the male-dominated operational side of the airline in 1998. While much of her work involves drab buildings and heavy equipment, the Seattle-based executive reminds colleagues that "an airline is a people business." An avid...
Talk to the people who were already inclined to read omens in the headlines, and you hear their excitement, even eagerness to see what happens next. "We sense we are very close to something apocalyptic, but that something positive will come out of it," says Doron Schneider, an Evangelical based in Jerusalem. "It's like a woman having labor pains. A woman can feel this pain reaching its height when the child is born--and then doesn't feel the pain anymore, only the joy of the happy event." Even the horror of Sept. 11 was experienced differently by people...
...concerns." In this view, Evangelical support reflects many factors: shared security interests, a desire to atone for past persecution of Jews, and deep, shared roots in the Book of Genesis. "Our primary motivation comes from the biblical verses that say he who blesses Israel will be blessed," says Doron Schneider of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. "We see ourselves as part of the fulfillment of the prophecy, but we are not causing it to happen...