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Simple logic says the mergers will jack up ticket prices. American and TWA compete head to head on Caribbean routes, for instance, yet TWA has long relied on hefty discounts to fill its seats. American, on the other hand, has long employed "yield management"--software that continuously analyzes and adjusts ticket prices to maximize revenue per seat. Donald Carty, chief executive of American, calls TWA's broad discounts a "failing business model." American does not think it prudent to give money away. Says Carty: "Consumers should never expect those [prices] every...
...environments have similar consequences on our bodies; it makes sense then to pollute less. Some of these relationships are more spiritual or metaphysical, as Muir or Thoreau would have argued. Yet for all three of them, as well as many of the brilliant environmental scientists, ethicists and philosophers who fill the spaces between them, the U.S. landscape represents one of the most significant legacies that one American generation leaves for the next. As such, we are all privileged to enjoy and responsible for preserving...
...process to acquire books was complicated. Libraries had to fill out detailed applications specifying--in triplicate--the size of their facilities, whether or not they owned a card catalog system, the number of books in their collections, their budget and their interest in Hebrew, Yiddish and German books...
...Bill Clinton swaggers off with his air of rogueish triumph - savoring, perhaps, the knowledge that he could have gone on and on as President if only the Constitution had allowed him to run, and that his own vice president ran to fill his shoes but did not succeed. Any narcissist is gratified when he finds that the world turns dark and heads south at exactly the moment he leaves the room. Cause and effect, his unconscious assures...
...muscle damage that occurs during heart attacks by transplanting precursor cells called stem cells into the affected areas. However, the stem-cell implants can take hold only if the levels of a number of different enzymes and molecules are boosted--a task that pharmaceuticals are particularly well suited to fill...