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ValuJet is one of a new breed of low-price airlines that seek to take advantage of a large pool of pilots and flight attendants who found themselves out of jobs after layoffs at large airlines. It is so no-frills that ValuJet president Jordan uses a $100 desk he bought at Home Depot. The strategy has proved a success for ValuJet. In 1993 the airline flew to Orlando and Tampa in Florida from Atlanta; today it serves 31 cities in 19 states. It reported that in April it had flown 50% more "revenue passenger miles" than...
Here's one way to spend $30 million: Fujitsu, rolling in cash from its profitable semiconductor and computer business, is investing that healthy sum to create an "artificial life" program for personal computers. The flashy new technology will one day let real-world humans breed E-world "creatures" that will help out with mundane computer tasks. Possible examples include byte-based Rottweilers that will fetch your electronic newspaper and virtual vultures that can nibble away at electronic "trash...
...take themselves too seriously. What made Don Imus' speech at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner front-page news was the White House suggestion that C-SPAN not rebroadcast it. That was unusual enough to meet the old city-editor test for a story: man bites dog (no special breed). Politicians are supposed to be nearly insult proof, in the way that people associated with the Mob are libel proof...
...league politics--that is, as a star manager instead of a player. Most black leaders make their mark by demanding that blacks get a seat at the table. Brown not only sat at the table, but often sat at its head. He was among the first of a new breed of black Washington insiders with the connections and influence to make things happen for clients as diverse as civil rights leaders and fat-cat corporate executives. Jesse Jackson, for one, describes himself as "a tree shaker, not a jelly maker." Brown was just the reverse, a jelly maker par excellence...
Indeed, just about everything about the economics of gaming is unpredictable, since the very success of casinos can sometimes breed future failures when the market becomes oversaturated. Rock Island, Illinois, had to rebate more than three-quarters of a million dollars in gambling taxes when its casino revenues plummeted because of new competition from Iowa. In New Orleans the gargantuan hulk of a half-built casino, slated to be the world's largest, sits rusting on the edge of the French Quarter. The builder, Harrah's Jazz Co., is bankrupt, done in by an overly optimistic tax deal with...