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Such programs are both a blessing and a curse to a perpetually troubled industry that has lost more than $11 billion in the past four years alone. Just last week Delta Airlines said it would eliminate as many as 15,000 jobs, or 20% of its work force, in a move to help it compete with low-cost rivals like Southwest Airlines. And United said it lost nearly $100 million in the first quarter because of competition from the no-frills carriers. Amid such relentless bloodletting, some 10 million frequent flyers traveled free on U.S. airlines in 1993, an amount...
Airlines are not likely to scrap the programs, however, because they have been so successful at pulling in business. When IBM recently proposed that United and American grant it lower ticket prices instead of frequent-flyer miles, both carriers declined. And shortly before Delta Airlines announced its latest job cuts, the carrier said it had joined forces with Varig Airlines of Brazil to expand Delta's frequent-flyer program. Frequent-flyer miles "are not going away," says Tony Molinaro, a spokesman for United. "We wouldn't do it if it wasn't really worth it." Especially now that consumers will...
...during the last few minutes of class, Professor Schreiber offered to clarify material in the seven minutes allotted between the chimes of Mem Church's bells and official Harvard class starting time at seven past the wee hour of the morning, when many other students are still immersed in delta sleep...
...Theta Delta Chi had grown enough to move out of its rooms on Broadway St. The frat built a new clubhouse at 54 Dunster St, which today houses the Office of Career Services...
...Harvard has no place for national fraternities and I am sure that those which have become extinct have never been missed by the college," Theta Delta Chi brother Paul M. Rice '15 wrote years later...