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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somewhere in the Delta Airlines computer system sits an account containing some 500 mile points from a round-trip Delta Shuttle ticket to New York City. Other than that one trip, I've never flown Delta and don't plan to--but if I did, I've got my frequent-flyer card in my wallet. When friends tell me they don't belong to any frequent-flyer programs, I'm amazed. Why pay for tickets when you don't have...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Free For All | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

Associated with each user account on fas is a home directory. Most users can store a maximum of 6.5 megabytes of data, and the largest portion of this is usually taken up by mail folders. A number of other files exist in your space that you might never notice, and one such file is "dead.letter...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: TechTalk | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

...report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly on TV, he became an O.J. celebrity himself. Now, trailing even Simpson's niece, Dunne has finally produced his own O.J. book, Another City, Not My Own. Coyly subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, it is an almost entirely factual account of Dunne's experience covering the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...taken aback by the one-sided nature of your article on nursing homes. No doubt thousands of caring, hard-working, underpaid staff members were humiliated by this piece. You failed to take into account the homes' heavy regulatory burdens, the fairness issue with fines and recent research indicating that nursing- home quality is improving. You should have emphasized that there are approximately 15,000 nursing homes other than those of the troubling Creekside variety. RICHARD L. PECK, Editor Nursing Homes Magazine Cleveland, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

Just like the downsized IRS, taxpayers were coming in with downsized problems. One woman was there over a disputed $100 payment. She said the agency only credited her for $75, throwing her account into default. An hour later, she returned happy, although saddled with more paperwork, and confident that her problem would be taken care of. "I'm very happy with how I was treated, and I think that everything is going to be fine." Oh, the humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Problems At the IRS | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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