of Electrical Workers (IBEW); Laborers Local 724; Screen Actors Guild (SAG); Teamsters Local 399; and Writers Guild of America (WGA) (amptp.org). On November 5‚ 2007 the Writer’s Guild of America East and the Writer’s Guild of America West initiated a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Cieply‚ 2007). The strike lasted 100 days and ended on February 12‚ 2008. The strike put the economy in Los Angeles under severe strain with losses estimated as high as $2.1 billion
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank The Boeing Company 2007 Annual Report Leading the Way Vision 2016: People working together as a global enterprise for aerospace leadership The Boeing Company Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined‚ providing products and tailored services to airlines and U.S. and allied armed forces around the world. Our capabilities include rotorcraft‚ electronic and defense
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Philippine Airlines‚ Asia’s first and oldest airline‚ started its operations in 1941. Since then‚ the Philippines was opened up to foreign countries and foreign trade. The Philippine Airlines opened up the country to tourism. It thrived from 1970s to early 1980s but during the mid-1980s‚ the tourism growth slowed down dramatically compared to other neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. Despite the Philippines’ huge head start‚ it was left behind. How did this happen? The Philippine government
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Prisons Act 2007 This Act provided for the establishment of the Office of the Inspector of Prisons‚ the contracting out of prisoner escort and transfers‚ construction and extension of prisons and also for the authority to draft new prison rules which resulted in the Prison Rules 2007. Privatisation of prisons was never introduced. The privatisation model was used instead to build prisons‚ using the public-private partnership model. Despite the plans to build new prisons and the accommodation issues
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M. Butterfly: Summary Act I Scenes 1-3 M. Butterfly opens in present-day Paris. Rene Gallimard is in a small prison cell. He describes his monotonous daily routine‚ and then confides that he is no ordinary prisoner‚ but a celebrity. People talk about him at parties from Amsterdam to New York. Scene 2 shows three people at a party joking about Gallimard‚ and the joke obviously has something to do with sex. Scene 3 returns to Gallimard’s cell‚ and he confides that he has been loved by the "Perfect
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v 2.0 / 1.7.2008 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore The Indian Airline Industry in 2008 By Rishikesha T. Krishnan Professor of Corporate Strategy & Policy 1 v 2.0 / 1.7.2008 The Indian Airline Industry in 2008 1 A 19% hike in the price of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) announced by India’s oil companies at the end of May 2008 jolted the Indian airline industry. With this hike‚ ATF prices had roughly doubled in a year‚ and tripled in four years. A concerned Civil Aviation Minister‚ Praful
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Great Recession 2007-2008 Our 2007-2008 financial crisis is blamed on cheap mortgage credit‚ including lax underwriting process and government policies. In 2003‚ the government passed the American Dream Development Act‚ which provided financing to low-income families. Trying to help lower middle class families‚ the policy led to mortgage subprime mortgages. Financing to families with low credit rating at high interest rates. Since a large part of the population is middle to lower class‚ an exhaustible
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Generic Benchmarking Worksheet Task A: Problem/Opportunity Statement Instructions for Task A: In the Response row‚ write out the problem/opportunity statements for the scenario for each of the team members. Response to Task A: Classic Airlines will become a profitable and successful organization by establishing better relationships with its internal and external customers. Generic Benchmarking—The purpose of generic benchmarking is to identify potential solutions to the problem statements
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After establishing a unique business model in the airline industry‚ Southwest has had its fair share of imitators. Yet none of these efforts at reproducing the success of Southwest have reached expectations. There are many reasons why imitators of Southwest have struggled so much but one of the biggest is the success of Southwest’s human resource management. Southwest is able to pay its employees less than the other major airlines yet get more production out of them. This is due to Southwest’s family
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Summary 1.0 Executive Summary Puddle Jumpers Airlines‚ Inc. is a new consumer airline in its formative stages. It is being organized to take advantage of a specific gap in the short-haul domestic travel market. The gap exists in low cost service out of Anytown‚ U.S.A. The gap in the availability of low cost service in and out of the Anytown hub coupled with the demand for passenger travel on selected routes from Anytown indicates that a new entrant airline could be expected to capture a significant
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