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People is in danger, however, of moving too fast. Several other discount carriers spawned by deregulation, including Air Florida, ended up in bankruptcy after overexpanding. Admits Donald Burr, People's founder and chairman: "There are risks in growing too fast, and there are risks in not growing at all. If I had my choice, I'd take the risk of growing too fast." He argues that his company is healthier than it has been in months. After suffering a $27 million loss between last October and March, the airline reported a record profit of $13 million for the April-June...
...Williams, the Duchess of Sutherland and Yasmin Aga Khan. But they were vagabonds, getting by on good looks, lordly manners and copious spending. Brooks Baekeland was a self-proclaimed writer who never published. His wife was an artist too busy to paint. Each of them had a love of danger and a propensity for violence. Each seemed more interested in boasting of Tony's gifts than in providing the selfless attention he needed...
Running into danger is part of the role sought by the interdenominational Witness for Peace. The group was founded with a twin purpose: 1) to place U.S. protesters in the line of fire in Nicaragua, in the belief that their presence will reduce hostilities, and 2) to attract American citizens to Nicaragua in order, as a Witness spokesman puts it, "to permit them to learn about the consequences of U.S. foreign policy on Nicaragua." The Witnesses claim to be apolitical, but they are considered by Washington to be definitely favorable to the Sandinistas and hostile to the insurgent contras. Since...
...magazine's readers are almost exclusively men, most of them between 18 and 34. Nearly half are servicemen, vets or law enforcement officers, according to a survey by Starch INRA Hooper, a New York research firm. Many readers seem to be Walter Mittys, content to experience danger vicariously. The magazine derives most of its revenue from circulation, but Brown is now pushing to attract big-name advertisers, including car and liquor companies. "It would be a hard sell for a media buyer," admits Advertising Manager Joan Steele. "The mercenary thing tarnishes our image...
Promptly removed, basal-cell carcinomas rarely pose a danger. There are several methods for getting rid of them. President Reagan's "pimple," and a similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon...