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From a high-rise office building just off a freeway in suburban Atlanta, for example, the eight virtual bosses of Popeyes last month orchestrated a restaurant opening in Iceland, designed a new outlet in Honduras and handled a chicken-supply crisis in Fairbanks, Alaska (which is so far from both the Atlanta headquarters and its vendors that it's treated like a foreign outpost...
...Clinton administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...
...annual Airline Quality Rating report, released Monday and co-authored by professors at the University of Nebraska and Wichita State University, is a ringing indictment of almost every major airline. While there were a few pleasant surprises, including Alaska, Southwest and Delta Airlines' relatively strong showings, for the most part the picture is pretty dismal. "The airlines promised two years ago to clean things up, and they just haven't," says Richard Gritta, professor of finance at the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland in Oregon...
...arms of Big Coal, but the heat obviously wasn't enough to drive the White House back toward the middle of the environmental road. Because this week it seemed determined to stretch that economic cover just as far as it will go - and it ain't just drilling in Alaska...
...Maybe not science. But public opinion, when it comes to environmentalism, is a notoriously lazy watchdog. Polls on the Alaska drilling issue were inconclusive. (The modification of "oil drilling" with the words "environmentally responsible" tended to take the teeth right out of the opposition, even though the term is as murky as the air over Los Angeles...