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...flight cuisine is so good that it can draw diners at ground level. In a novel promotion, JAL has opened its own restaurant, complete with a genuine cabin crew. Customers at the Osaka restaurant pay as much as $75 apiece to savor such in-flight specialties as flounder steamed in wine and red snapper stuffed with crayfish. To whet their appetite for travel, JAL has patrons enter a replica of a Boeing 767 cabin to watch a 5-min. videotape that highlights JAL destinations. Reservations for the restaurant, which will be open until September at Osaka's flower exposition...
...George DelMonte of the San Francisco area tells me that the chance to swim with dolphins was a principal reason that he and his girlfriend chose to stay at the Hyatt. Encumbered by life jackets that serve mainly to prevent the overeager from pursuing animals to the depths, we flounder about as the young dolphins carve intricate underwater arcs through our midst, occasionally stopping to toss balls with their noses...
Leveraged buyouts could be in trouble during a downturn for many reasons. Investors in some LBOs may simply have paid too high a price or accepted overly rosy projections about their ability to repay debt. Other buyouts might flounder because investment bankers arranged the deals with more concern for the fat fees they produced than for the soundness of the transactions, according to critics of Wall Street. Some studies in LBO failure...
Unfortunately, only half of the actors slip comfortably into the sharp-edged comedy-of-manners mode, while the others flounder midway between some sort of modern naturalistic something-or-other and a very stilted ultra-Victorian melodramatic bluster...
HUSO should be allowed to succeed or flounder of its own accord. If it lacks student support, it will fail in the free marketplace of ideas...