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...Women’s Final Four festivities, which include the national semifinals and championship at the Fleet Center, a three-day fan festival and a national coaches meeting, are expected to pump an estimated $25 million into the host city’s economy...
...JetBlue's core strategy is as old as business itself: Keep costs low. Non-union labor, a small 15-plane fleet and secondary airports like Long Beach instead of LAX allows JetBlue to price their flights at their main audience - namely, folks that would normally be going from Rochester to New York City by bus. (JetBlue's growing reputation for punctuality is also starting to attract the business...
...Some medical research suggests not. In a 1996 editorial, the New England Journal of Medicine stated flatly that "during most commercial flights today, cabin air is remarkably clean." Airlines generally insist their air is neither polluted nor unhealthy. But in January, British Airways admitted to a problem with its fleet of Boeing 777s after crew members reported a high incidence of nausea and fainting. Poor air distribution led to still pockets of air forming at head height in parts of the airplanes, says BA, forcing some staff to work in conditions that were "like a hot day with no breeze...
...heap 14 months ago. Under BMW, Rover Group also included two other loss-making brands: the Mini, which BMW kept, and Land Rover, which was sold to Ford. And more than half of 1999's losses came from expenses that no longer exist, including interest on loans, loss-making fleet and overseas sales, and the costs of maintaining a workforce of about 35,000. Rover workers now number a mere 6,500. Skeptics, however, maintain that Rover's success is largely derived from the $707 million dowry bequeathed to it by BMW as a 50-year loan...
...proposed changes, they seem to be limited to the following: A one-third reduction, from 93 to 60, of the Reagan-era B-1B bomber fleet (a proposal already causing a fuss in Congress because it spares only the planes based in South Dakota, Tom Daschle's home state, and Texas, George W. Bush's). A scrapping of 50 of the U.S.' nuclear-tipped MX "Peacekeeper" missiles as a possible first step toward a unilateral reduction in the nation's nuclear arsenal. And of course a $3 billion increase in spending on missile defense, to $8.3 billion. Total 2002 cost...