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Those $99 ticket prices, a boon to travelers, are a bane to the airlines
There seems little danger, in the meantime, of a quick truce in the fare wars that have been such a boon to travelers and a bane to carriers. An estimated 80% of all passengers flew at discounts last year, at an average saving of 50%. Such bargains are likely to continue as long as the weakest airlines are tempted to cut prices to fill seats and competitors feel compelled to follow. Says Arthur Jackson, an American Airlines spokesman: "The leaders in discounts are airlines with severe cash problems. Discounting is a way of raising money in order...
COMPULSIVE GAMBLING is Bob's other chief bane, which similarly threatens to send him reeling unpredictably. He has a slot machine stashed in his closet. Behind his eyes always lurks the image of a gamble, regardless of whether it is a sure thing or a long shot. His firm sense of style and order gives him mastery and status, but it's the danger of the game--the inherent risk in even the smallest throw of the dice--that actually keeps him alive. Watching a horse race, or hunched over a craps table. Bob's eyes narrow in intense concentration...
Lopez Portillo compounded the country's political and economic troubles by encouraging the most deadly bane of Mexico's one-party system: corruption. La mordida (literally, the bite) has always been endemic in Mexican society, but with the huge infusion of oil money, corruption mushroomed. The outgoing President, for example, created 5 million jobs in six years. But at least half of the 2 million new public positions are suspected...
...defense complex is very solicitous of "individual freedoms," no accident that Ronald Reagan, in private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures to the old purposes...