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Ask the pilot
The Six Continent Club, lithium batteries, more defunct airlines: The pilot takes on a grab bag of topics.
By Patrick Smith [2008-01-11]

  • @russels

    Buzz, thanks for playing, but your nit picking is incorrect.

    Here it is from the 2007 FedEx annual report: "These operating companies are primarily represented by Federal Express Corporation [bolding mine] ("FedEx Express"), the world's largest express transportation company..."

    You'd think as a "business reporter" type, you'd bother to check OneSource or Hoover's or something to see if the company you claim doesn't exist is a subsidiary of a the parent (whose name, of course, you get right). Just because AMR Corp. exists, doesn't mean that American Airlines does not...

    What do I win? A nit?

    -- Kevin C
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    Friday, January 11, 2008 02:15 PM
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