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While all this may be, as analysts have suggested, a sign of maturity in the industry, passengers may be forgiven if they see absolutely nothing here that resembles good news for them. Without a doubt, consumers benefited from the cheaper airfares that followed in the decade after deregulation. In a period of expanding capacity, letting the market set the fares is a great idea. But now the pendulum is swinging in the sellers' direction. The airlines' widely touted "price discipline," for example, translates roughly to a 27% increase in the average price of a ticket in the past two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Thanks so much for sharing. You can be forgiven, though, for thinking the President is a bit disingenuous when he includes himself among the sanctimonious. It may not matter who started it, but he wants everybody to know that it sure wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POOR, POOR, PITIFUL ME | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...elusive personality, not to mention the reverential way in which his colleagues and employees often speak about him (one hears a lot of talk about what "George likes" and what "George wants" and how one must go about achieving "George's vision"), a melodramatic visitor might be forgiven for imagining himself as Martin Sheen traveling upriver in search of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now (a film, by the way, that Lucas originally developed, and that he intended to direct before ceding it to Francis Coppola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FORCE IS BACK | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...this regard that the split of feeling on the subject of homosexuality is sharpest among Christians. It has become fashionable among liberal Protestants to believe one of two things. The first is that because sins can be forgiven, it is OK to sin--that because Jesus loves all of us, He also loves all of our sins, or at least is unconcerned about them. Such a belief is obviously self-contradictory because words, thoughts, and deeds only become sins if the Lord disapproves of them...

Author: By Randy A. Karger, | Title: Appropriating the Pulpit | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...corporate clients, helping AT&T, for example, test TV spots during its corporate war against MCI. But Morris didn't really want him. A few years before, Penn had shot down some big-think Morris ideas during a meeting with a client of his, and Morris had never forgiven or forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASTERS OF THE MESSAGE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

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