AMR Corporation (OTCQB: AAMRQ) is a commercial aviation business and airline holding company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, known for being the parent company of American Airlines. The company also owns AMR Eagle Holdings Corporation, which operates the regional airlines American Eagle Airlines and Executive Airlines. AMR's and AA's Chairman, President, and CEO is Thomas W. Horton. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011.

AMR corporation was formed in 1982, as part of American Airlines's non-bankruptcy reorganization into a Delaware corporation, its name derives from American Airlines's former ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange.

On November 29, 2011, AMR Corporation filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy. The Air Transport Association group said that unofficial research states that AMR was the 100th airline company to go into bankruptcy protection since 1990.

On December 2, 2011, AMR Corporation was replaced by Alaska Air Group in the Dow Jones Transportation Average.

Barack Hussein Obama II (ⁱ/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.

William Douglas Parker is the current chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the US Airways Group.

Parker has been with US Airways since June 1995, when he joined as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of America West Airlines. He additionally held titles as Executive Vice President, corporate group, and Chief Operating Officer before being elected Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of America West in September 2001.

He continued as CEO of US Airways following the merger with America West Airlines in 2005. Under his tenure as CEO, he made an unsuccessful bid to merge US Airways and Delta Air Lines in 2007.

Before joining America West Airlines, Parker was at American Airlines from 1986 to 1991, and was Vice President and Assistant Treasurer at Northwest Airlines from 1991 to 1995.

Parker has a BA in Economics from Albion College (1984) and an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University (1986). He lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife, Gwen Parker, and three children.

Nicos Anastasiades (Greek: Νίκος Αναστασιάδης; born 27 September 1946) is a Cypriot politician who is the political leader of the center-right political party DISY (the Democratic Rally). In parliamentary elections on May 22, 2011, the Democratic Rally won 20 seats, which was more than any other party but not a majority of the 56-member House of Representatives.

Anastasiades was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1981 and has been leader of his party since 8 June 1997.

He is a lawyer by profession and he is the founder of the law firm of Nicos Chr. Anastasiades & Partners.^{[better source needed]} He graduated in law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and completed postgraduate studies in shipping law at University College London (University of London). He is a traditional supporter of ending military conscription in Cyprus.

Nikos Anastasiades with President of France Nicolas Sarkozy

Nikos Anastasiades with Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi

Nikos Anastasiades with President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso