In September 2006, Alan Mulally walked into Ford with an unusual credential for an automaker CEO — he'd spent his entire career building aircraft at Boeing. Upon his arrival, Ford had posted a $12.7 billion loss that year, and its market share had been declining for 10 years in a row – recession level losses that Ford has only recently approached since. The automaker's leadership was consumed by the personal agendas of internal executives that actively worked against the company's broader success.
British Airways is building what it calls the "world's largest" business-class cabin and ripping out dozens of coach-class seats, the starkest example yet of how airlines are betting their future on high-spending travelers.
"Golden Tee '99, hole seven, Aspen Lake: There's a dead body about 180 yards out, a little bit to the right in the woods there," says Keith of Keith's Arcade, a YouTube channel not typically devoted to cold case homicides. But as they say in golf, you've got to play it as it lies, and in November 2012 Keith stumbled upon a body lying motionless just off the green of the otherwise picturesque, forested course in northern Colorado. It was his responsibility to tell the world what he'd found.
Blood Sweat Honey, a talent scouting, consulting and representation firm for independent filmmakers, has launched Cinema Machine to distribute films theatrically and digitally and develop and manage projects, bookings and contracts.
John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month’s budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts that show bills rising by hundreds of pounds in January.
Russia denies plague cases after laboratory technician’s death; US demands ‘transparency’ as WHO monitors situation.
Russian authorities have denied that they imposed anti-plague measures after a laboratory technician died of suspected pneumonic plague in a case which has drawn international scrutiny.
