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...does Southwest do it? The answer starts with lower costs. The Air Transport Association reports that other major airlines (American, United, Delta, Northwest, Continental, U.S. Airways, America West and Alaska) had unit costs--measured in cost per seat for each mile flown--nearly 100% higher than Southwest. A study by the consulting arm of Unisys concluded that the other majors would need to cut spending a staggering $18 billion just to level the playing field with Southwest. The airline "has long-term, systemic advantages the other carriers can likely never match," says Vaughn Cordle, an airline pilot who heads...
...million for its most recent fiscal year, Canandaigua is the second biggest wine company in the world, after E.& J. Gallo Winery, with a reported $1.4 billion in annual sales. But Canandaigua (named after the town in upstate New York where the company was founded in 1945), a unit of publicly traded Constellation Brands, is expanding more aggressively than its competitors, with profits increasing 134% from 1999 to 2001. Many of his peers consider Moramarco the savviest operator in a tradition-bound industry that is rapidly consolidating under the pressure of changing tastes and global competition. "Moramarco...
...defense deserves the lion’s share of the credit for getting us out of here with a [win],” said Harvard coach Tim Murphy of the unit that he has defended from outside critcism all year...
...this day, the defense was dressed up as Harvard’s most dominating unit...
...Harvard secondary, easily the most maligned unit of the Crimson defense, finally contained a prime-time receiver. Senior Chisom Opara, the Ivy’s third-leading receiver, had a comparatively bland day of eight catches for 87 yards. More importantly, Opara’s longest catch went for only 20 yards...