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...centerfolds. They included vintage rushes of Sondra Theodore, Miss July 1977 and a former Hefner girlfriend, interviews with Jessica Hahn, and the 1989 Playboy Video Calendar. Playboy officials fear that the culprits will edit the stolen material in video chop shops and resell it in overseas markets at a discount, forcing the company to compete against its own pirated products...
...competitive weapons in the major airlines' arsenals, perhaps the most powerful is one that never leaves the ground: the computerized reservation system. More potent than frequent-flyer programs or discount fares, these systems have become vital to an airline's ability to compete and survive. Says Julius Maldutis, who follows the industry for the Salomon Brothers investment firm: "Automated reservation systems are dividing the industry into the haves and have-nots. Those with them are becoming the big eagles. Those without, sitting ducks...
...angry Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that "anything to undermine NATO will be damaging to the defense of liberty." The West Germans, though, have support from other NATO members, and diplomats suggested the likelihood of a compromise before the alliance's summit meeting in May. But NATO cannot discount the dominating figure of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the minds of many Europeans -- if not in fact -- Gorbachev has removed the Soviet threat with seductive arms initiatives, particularly his promise to make major unilateral cuts in Soviet army forces in Eastern Europe...
After we saw that The Crimson had published a full-page advertisement by Eastern Airlines asking readers to fly "the fairest fare in the air" for only $29--a substantial discount from the pre-strike cost--we, the undersigned, decided this was one of those times...
...growth of huge regional discount stores -- despite all the convenience they provide -- has been devastating for many small downtowns, since one shopping center can draw customers away from a dozen or more communities. Says Robert Van Hook, executive director of the National Rural Health Association: "Wal-Marts are the last nails in the coffins of a lot of rural Main Streets." Because downtown retail shops are important employers, their decline can be fatal to the rest of the town's economy as well. Another major small-town employer, the local hospital, is disappearing at the rate of more than...