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...follows the airline industry for the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm: "People Express is about to test its pain threshold. Cracking these markets is not going to be easy if American and Delta play rough." During the past several years Delta has successfully squelched United's attempts to expand its Atlanta business. "We have been developing this market for 41 years," says a Delta spokesman. Both American and Delta have already matched People's fares, although they have imposed certain restrictions. Moreover, they offer frequent-flyer bonus programs, while People does not. In the past People has sometimes had trouble...
...single compositional style has generally dominated its era. In the fractious late 20th century, however, composers freely draw on myriad influences to create highly personalized idioms. Eclecticism, once a term of opprobrium, has become a virtue, perhaps even a style in itself, as the boundaries of serious music steadily expand...
...families of the boys who would subsequently have died, be it 40,000 of them or a million? How could he have justified continuing the war, transferring weary G.I.s to the Pacific to prepare for an invasion, proceeding with the grotesque fire bombings and allowing the Kremlin to expand its grip in the Far East when he had spent $2 billion on a weapon that could produce a quick end to the conflict...
...firms like Citibank and AT&T that have built networks for their own internal use. Many were products of the counterculture and Me generations who now seek fulfillment in networking. "The business is just rife with spiritual odd fellows," says Stewart Brand. "They've found something that really does expand their consciousness...
...with it, Arizona is hardly awash in excess water. Indeed, Babbitt sought to ensure that Arizona's liquid riches would not be squandered, by winning passage in 1980 of the nation's most stringent water-management program. The law discourages the state's farmers from using CAP water to expand production of heavily irrigated cotton and citrus crops by requiring the growers to forgo an amount of groundwater equal to their use of the new supply. The measure also provides for the sale of water rights by farmers to developers and local water systems, thus promoting growth without creating...