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...show for nearly two decades, having worked his way up from an assistant manager for reservations. After taking over in 1984, he moved aggressively to stretch the airline worldwide; he was the main proponent of Singapore's successful push to become the first Southeast Asian country to sign a bilateral open-skies agreement with the U.S, in 1997. This treaty lets the airline fly to any American city and has inspired similar agreements throughout Asia...
...sponsors--Coca-Cola, Samsung, McDonald's--sign directly with the I.O.C. We market at a national level, and we have almost 300 million euros, which is huge for Italy...
...their heads together to find profitable new uses for Sandostatin. Those exertions paid off. The drug won approval for treating the side effects of certain cancers, and sales rose rapidly, reaching $486 million last year. Vasella asked Kim Clark, then a Harvard Business School professor (and now dean), to sign on as a consultant. "He told me something that stuck in my mind," says Vasella. "He said, 'You can change an organization from top down or bottom up, but it's very hard to change it from the middle.' I was a middle manager...
...peoples' minds. But is that support enough? The same Libération poll showed large majorities qualifying Sarkozy's economic action thus far "a failure" - notably on daily concerns like shrinking purchasing power and high unemployment. That may weaken public support on smaller reform pain if there's no sign of wider economic gain - especially if social divisions created by protests are considered too costly by voters. But even if that happens, the political price of backing down might well be too high for Sarkozy...
Those detainees eventually okayed for release by U.S. officials sign a pledge saying they will not get involved in violence against Iraqi forces or U.S.-led coalition troops. The pledge, usually co-signed by a relative of the detainee, is presented to an Iraqi judge. The matter is then considered closed by the Americans and the Iraqi authorities, and the detainee is free...