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...hard to avoid such accoutrements of the '90s as logo-design consultants, glossy blue press packets and focus groups that mall-test key words to see which ones grab people's attention. Deaver's p.r. firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is billing its services at a 20% discount; Deaver is donating his. Powell is not going to put up with the kind of waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners, the Points of Light Foundation...
...superior cattle with modified immune systems were used--cows being the cross-species surrogate of choice. (No cow will ever phone the National Enquirer with juicy palimony exclusives.) Clonees were allowed up to five babies per surrogate mom (no womb sharing). Those wishing more than five received generous volume-discount rates...
...look at the size of the herd: baby boomers, all 80 million of them, have a lust for stock that keeps growing. "A substantial number of us are reaching 45 and realizing that we need to save more," says Rodney Trautvetter, CEO of Burke, Christensen, Lewis Securities, a Chicago discount brokerage. "And the historic averages in the stock market still blow out savings accounts...
Massages cost $45 for one hour, with members of the Harvard Group Health Plan (but not the student health plan) receiving a $5 discount...
...also because, despite the full planes and record profits, the industry is still burdened with a large amount of debt and faces big capital outlays for new equipment. The U.S. has the oldest fleet in the developed world. Nor is the threat from discount carriers over. Although the ValuJet crash took with it the public's confidence in upstart airlines, the barrier to entry is still relatively low. Capital, pilots, planes and entire outsourced airline service industries are readily available...