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Southwest Airlines announced last June that it would enforce a long-standing policy of requiring the obese to buy an extra seat based solely on the judgment of staff at the check-in counter that a particular passenger wouldn't fit in a single seat. Southwest says most people who have contacted the airline have supported the policy. And it doesn't seem to have hurt business. Southwest is the only one of the top five airlines that is in the black. But advocates for the obese are livid over the policy. "It infuriates both men and women," says Allen...
...ensures better after-tax returns. So if you've been afraid to step back into the market, get over it. This plan would deleverage corporate America by making stock, not debt, a more attractive way to raise money and restore investor confidence by drawing attention to companies fit enough to boost cash payouts. The plan also encourages companies to stop dodging taxes, because only fully taxed profits could be paid as taxfree dividends. Some form of dividend-tax relief will almost surely survive any political horse trading. Here's a guide to investment winners and losers...
...Women's groups helped excise "self-defeating personality disorder" from the book. The revised third edition, in 1987, said the typical sufferer "chooses people and situations that lead to disappointment, failure, or mistreatment even when better options are clearly available." But feminists successfully argued that battered women could unfairly fit this category...
Professors said that luring away Shleifer from Harvard would be a major boon for NYU, and that Stern’s finance department would be a good fit for Shleifer...
...ensures better after-tax returns. So if you've been afraid to step back into the market, get over it. This plan would deleverage corporate America by making stock, not debt, a more attractive way to raise money and restore investor confidence by drawing attention to companies fit enough to boost cash payouts. The plan also encourages companies to stop dodging taxes, because only fully taxed profits could be paid as taxfree dividends. Some form of dividend-tax relief will almost surely survive any political horse trading. Here's a guide to investment winners and losers...