Word: delta
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...cultural vocabulary and an ongoing American myth. Hundreds of songs; more than 500 and counting. Forty-three albums; more than 57 million copies sold. A series of dreams about America as it once and never was. It was folk music, deep within its core, from the mountains and the delta and the blacktop of Highway 61. Rhythm and blues, too, and juke-joint rock 'n' roll, and hymns from backwoods churches and gospel shouts from riverside baptisms. He put all that together, and found words to match...
...industry's most doable and popular methods of providing rewards is to co-brand a credit card with a noncompeting company. This technique lets you earn miles and points from everyday purchases made without ever fastening an airplane seat belt. Delta Air Lines awards you 300 miles with every floral purchase of $29.99 or more from the Flower Club. American Airlines gives 5 miles for every $1 spent with phone company MCI. United Airlines even gives you a housewarming gift: 1,000 miles for every $10,000 borrowed through specified mortgage brokers. "I can get miles by using my Bell...
...airlines are not far behind. American, Delta, Northwest and other major carriers will arrange for you to give 5,000- and 10,000-mile increments to such charities as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the United Way of America and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Lufthansa's Miles & More program lets you trade in 125,000 miles for a hot-air-balloon ride for as many as four people. Virgin Atlantic Airways offers a two-day parachuting course in exchange for 30,000 miles...
...Delta holds similar auctions about four times a year. Prizes have included tickets and travel packages to the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and tickets to the 1995 Super Bowl in Miami...
Recupero, a social anthropology concentrator, will travel to Botswana and will investigate the contemporary relationship between identity and alcohol consumption. He intends to focus on the residents of Maun, a large settlement near the Okavango River Delta...