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...household, Michelle writes the checks and Harvey handles the telecommunications. They operate two small home businesses, Kronberg's Flags and Flagpoles and a local newsletter, and though Harvey is his own boss, he has to keep a lot of other people happy--his cell-phone company, his long-distance carrier, another phone company for the fax line at his office and still another for local phone service. The Kronbergs live in Texas, a state that went in for deregulation in a big way, so not only do they have to choose from multiple local phone services, but they also have...
...NAVY Submarines 16 Surface combatants 27 including 8 destroyers, 11 frigates, 1 aircraft carrier and 7 corvettes...
...airlines hemorrhaged money and talked about the need to get even bigger, the small airlines discovered the safety issue. Within days of the disaster, Jonathan Ornstein, the CEO of Mesa Airlines, a commuter carrier based in Phoenix, announced that he was hiring his own corps of unarmed security personnel. Given their tiny fleets, enthusiastic employees and more nimble management, outfits such as JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines redesigned and reinforced cockpit doors within two weeks. The big carriers will need months, at a minimum. "Past practice has been to wait and see what others will do," explains Thomas Nunn, Frontier...
...Already Naval officers are privately crowing that the Afghan war has been practically an all-Navy show. Fully ninety percent of the air sorties have been flown by carrier-based planes, and the largest ground contingent in Afghanistan is the Marines, who are part of the Department of the Navy. Navy men privately fumed during the 1991 Desert Storm War because the Air Force dominated the air war. But in Afghanistan, "this is the Navy's war," one sea-going officer said proudly...
News quiz: Name the one airline in America that actually made money in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Final answer: Midway Airlines. The carrier, based in North Carolina (which has the same name as a Chicago-based airline that went bust in 1991), declared bankruptcy in mid-August, unable to compete against low-fare king Southwest Airlines and hurt by an unfriendly split from its partner, American Airlines. The small carrier had grounded its flights and was close to shutting down operations when the attacks occurred. Within hours, Midway closed its doors...