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...past several years Delta has successfully squelched United's attempts to expand its Atlanta business. "We have been developing this market for 41 years," says a Delta spokesman. Both American and Delta have already matched People's fares, although they have imposed certain restrictions. Moreover, they offer frequent-flyer bonus programs, while People does not. In the past People has sometimes had trouble competing with major carriers that matched its low prices. It has lost business to Northwest in Minneapolis and to Piedmont in South Carolina...
Long after his career ended at 42 in 1928, Cobb complained about the decline of his sport. "The fabric of baseball is crumbling, "he warned. "I'd want players less interested hi a bonus, a business manager and a bowling alley than in fighting to win." But he was surprisingly modern in his self-interest. Like Rose he became a player-manager with a mouthful of statistics, mostly about his own achievements. Like Rose he was a headlong competitor whose determination made him exceed more gifted men. And like Rose he grew wealthy with shrewd investments, a high salary...
...album’s second half flows almost too cohesively, with songs dissolving into instrumentals that veer between intricate atmospherics and flat-poured MIDI concrete. The bonus EP included with “Twins,” though, dashes the possibility that Barnes was ever in danger of running out of ideas for fully-formed, blissful pop tunes. Barnes’ wife Nina makes the heart-racing, dewy-eyed lyrics of “Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks” all the more believable with sweet-natured lead vocals, and “The Actor’s Opprobrium?...
With more elusive personalities like cellist Jacqueline du Pr, whose career was cut short by multiple sclerosis in 1973, when she was 28, and Carlos Kleiber, the notoriously reclusive conductor who died last year, the interviews and documentaries that usually make up the bonus material on DVDs are scarce if not nonexistent. The producers are reduced to offering such extras as "photo galleries." No matter; the releases sell anyway. The performers' names and mystique are enough. Almost two decades after Du Pr's death in 1987, a DVD titled Jacqueline du Pr in Portraitis one of the best-selling offerings...
Appropriately, people skills aren’t just a bonus at the catcher position; they’re practically a prerequisite...