Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Similar cutbacks will be required of a proposed Lufthansa-Scandinavian Air Services-United Airlines alliance, and the EU is expected later this year to set strict requirements for the European alliances planned by Delta and Northwest. With the importance of European markets growing amid Asia's decline, the battle for the continent's skies looks set to be the fiercest since...
...acknowledge only in hushed tones. Around here, it's almost sacrilegious to diss the festival. "Most people aren't really interested in learning about the cherry industry," concedes 50-year-old Eddie Baur (no, not that one), owner of a downtown liquor store. Instead "it's about the carnival, air shows and concerts," says Baur. Even this year's festival president, David Skibowski, admits that he doesn't care much for cherries. "I'm not a big fruit person," he says...
...being in charge--the higher pay, the glamour, the deference of the staff--without actually being in charge. They are pampered but powerless, like children. And the producers, who have the real power but not the atmospherics, and who usually work harder, also come to think of the on-air talent as children. The resulting incentive structure for the talent is, frankly, inappropriate training for a career as a middle manager...
...SILENT AIR SCRUBBER...
Most people worry about gunk in the air they breathe, but those bulky air filters that ceaselessly hum and whir can be just as irritating. Clearveil Corp. of Denver offers an alternative way to cleanse your home or office of airborne dust, bacteria, cat dander and cigarette smoke. The Jenn-Air SilentAir purifier ($229) is thin and light and, best of all, silent. Like other filters, it sends out negative ions to grab hold of the pollutants. Unlike other filters, it has a charged metal strip to lure them back in--no noisy fan or motor. It takes longer...