Word: discounter
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...Marriott International. An insider's tip from Engel: contact your team's office to find out at which hotels the team stays in various cities. "You may catch an up-close glimpse of a favorite player in the hotel lobby, and you may be able to get a fan discount at these hotels," she says...
...years Long Beach begged major airlines to take advantage of its location, but it was only last summer that interest came from an unexpected quarter: JetBlue, the discount carrier based at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Like Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, with its low fares and aversion to plane-changing hubs, has proved increasingly attractive to passengers in the new era of fewer flights and tighter security--including business travelers, the 15% who provide 50% of an airline's profit. So when JetBlue CEO David Neeleman began seeking a way to capture some of the lucrative transcontinental...
...including a "virtual modeling" function that lets shoppers build a 3-D screen image of themselves and "try on" items. Online orders accounted for more than $300 million of its $1.6 billion in sales last year, and are growing three times as fast as catalog purchases. With only 16 discount outlets and one test store, Lands' End has minuscule bricks-and-mortar sales...
Things change. Imagine this was a year ago. A movie called "The Sum of all Fears" opens. You discount the implicit hype of the title - who could possibly sum up all the angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...captured bin Laden aide Abu Zubaydah. According to sources, Abu Zubaydah told interrogators that al-Qaeda operatives were discussing attacks on "soft targets," meaning nongovernmental buildings and places where large numbers of Americans gather. Although investigators remain leery of anything Abu Zubaydah says, they don't want to discount his remarks entirely. So instead of issuing a public warning that might turn out to be a false alarm, this time they passed the message along to local police chiefs and mayors discreetly...