Word: biz
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...Sorry, fellas, it might be a while. While the industry suffered its worst spring since the dawn of jet flight, JetBlue is making money and on track to carry three million passengers this year. That's just a drop in the 670-million-passenger airline biz bucket, but it's enough to keep the airline growing and adding planes and flights. At low, low prices - tickets from JFK to its newest city, New Orleans, start at $69 one way, and even last-minute fares (where the big carriers usually start using commas in their prices) to Oakland...
...Issues of creativity and expression aside, there was another, more concrete reason why Southern stuck with the movie biz: he acknowledged in an interview (also included in "Dig") that "it is highly rewarding in the financial sense..." Therefore, owing quite a bit to the IRS, he looked forward to scoring a "breakthrough" film project that would simultaneously solve his financial troubles and resuscitate his standing in the Hollywood community. The juiciest anecdotes in Hill's biography detail the curious way in which he pursued this breakthrough: in true self-destructive, Wellesian style, he hooked up with a variety of collaborators...
...Useful Sites UDDI www.uddi.org ALL BIZ Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (now that's a mouthful!) is forging common protocols for identifying, describing and connecting companies wanting to do business on the Web. Dry as dust, but potentially important for the B2B market...
...second panel he's already cleverly amended the first statement by revealing one of his Bargains with Fate, "I will only lie in the service of Truth." This typically sly-humored, blink-and-you'll-miss-it juxtaposition makes Campbell's work one of the subtlest pleasures in the biz...
...Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...