Word: deltas
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...specifics of co-branded cards vary quite a bit, but generally, for each dollar you charge, you receive a point. Points can be redeemed at affiliated companies--for lattes at Starbucks, chinos at the Gap, flights on Delta. The number of accounts offering rewards jumped from 35 million to 56 million last year, according to the industry-tracking Nilson Report. And the offers keep rolling in. Bank One and Visa launched a card last month with Sony; American Express added to its program last week a company called Space Adventures, which sells "space flight experiences," including airplane rides that simulate...
...oppose a move in Congress to help out the industry's giants, including bankrupt United Airlines. TIME has obtained a copy of a letter from the five airlines to the Bush Administration in which they say that a bill to provide special pension relief to the major carriers (American, Delta and Northwest would be the main beneficiaries, along with United) is "selective subsidization" and "the worst form of intervention that wastes limited public funds and harms consumers." The CEOs of AirTran, America West, Frontier, JetBlue and Spirit airlines argue that the big carriers should not be given government help while...
There's not much profit yet in neuroeconomics' eyebrow-raising sidekick--neuromarketing--but that might not be far behind. In Atlanta, the BrightHouse Neurostrategies Group has been retained by Coca-Cola, Delta and Red Lobster for branding consultancy work...
...appreciation for the delta blues is impressive and Keb’ shows a commendable dedication to presenting those often depressing tunes in a fashion that can be understood by a new generation reared on top forty radio, but, sadly, this process sacrifices too much of the essential force behind the music. The dichotomy is clearest in the sensations he evokes; listening to his CD is not the emotional experience of the classic blues artists’ records: Simple simply doesn’t have the raw power of strong blues. Partly, the problem is a lack of trust...
...research magazine Dataquest, as corporations used some of their profits (not to mention tax breaks) to expand overseas hiring. That translates to 140,000 jobs outsourced to India last year. Vivek Paul, president of Wipro, one of India's leading outsourcing companies (it handles voice and data processing for Delta Airlines, for instance), says its service business grew 50% in the last quarter of 2003. "Companies that are emerging from the slowdown are beginning to invest some of that in India," he says. John McCarthy, author of the Forrester Research landmark study that predicted 3.3 million jobs would move overseas...