Word: decentering
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...belief that tough guys are really decent guys at heart may be, as Norman Mailer once remarked, "one of the sweetest thoughts in all the world." And a necessary one. For, as the novelist also observed, "there's nothing more depressing than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt...
...reputation for decent cuisine does not come cheap: thanks in part to government subsidies, some foreign carriers are able to spend up to five times as much per passenger on food than U.S. airlines do. "Since deregulation," admits Robert Adamak, manager of planning and development for Eastern, "the U.S. airlines are putting on more snacks and perhaps using less expensive products." Among domestic carriers, Alaska Airlines is the most lavish ($7 a passenger), while USAir is the cheapest, at $2.22. Foreign carriers, on the other hand, may spend as much as $15, though the coming of European deregulation...
...carriers are not completely insensitive to the groans of hungry passengers. As they compete for frequent flyers, some companies are finding that decent food can help promote passenger loyalty. Alaska Airlines has started advertising that its "plane food isn't plain food." Researchers at Chicago-based United sort through the garbage to see what is regularly returned uneaten. One result: the airline in March will stop serving canned fruit cocktail on all coach flights. In April American will introduce a Heart Healthy menu approved by the American Heart Association...
...only guarantee of a decent meal, some travelers insist, is the brown bag. Manhattan's William Poll, sandwich purveyor to the Upper East Side top crust, prepares at least 50 boxes a week for his customers. On any given Monday morning, an arbitrager on his way to the coast will stop by to pick up his deluxe, shiny white box. Inside: beluga caviar on thinny-thin slices of white bread, a wedge of brie, English biscuits, a string-bean salad and a chocolate mousse. Fellow passengers look on jealously, perhaps not suspecting that this discerning gent finds $95 a small...
CONSERVATIVES tend to blame the plight of the homeless on their lack of a work ethic. If they merely pulled themselves up by the boot-straps, some believe, the able-bodied ones could then make a decent living...