"We have now passed RIM, and I don't see them catching up to us in the foreseeable future, " Jobs said.

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She avoids seating people who know each other very well next to each other, as this may lead to them catching up only with each other all night.

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"The way airlines have taken 130-seat airplanes and expanded them to 150 seats to squeeze out more revenue I think is finally catching up with them, " said Dean Headley, a business professor at Wichita State University who has co-written the annual report for 23 years.

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