Star returns
Oscar is done, so the fashion industry begins collecting items on loan for prime-time exposure. Story
Walkout's bay area effect slight
TAMPA -- The strike by Comair's 1,350 pilots had little immediate impact at Tampa International Airport on Monday because the nation's second-largest regional carrier has only two flights a day from the airport, both round trips to Orlando using 30-seat Embraer aircraft.
Business today
SYKES' PAY ON THE RISE: John Sykes, chief executive of troubled Sykes Enterprises Inc. of Tampa, received a salary of $550,000 last year, up 15 percent from 1999 and 82 percent from 1998. According to the call center company's annual proxy statement, Sykes, who held 42 percent of the public company's stock at year-end, also received a bonus of $130,185 that was based on his 1999 performance. Former president and CEO David Grimes, who left the company in November, took home $539,340 in salary and a $120,000 bonus.
State sales up along with prices
Sales of existing single-family homes grew last month in Florida, but not in the Tampa Bay area. Still, sales prices rose in both jurisdictions.
Comair strike launches labor strife
The regional carrier is forced to cancel hundreds of flights as labor tensions simmer at major airlines.
