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...Passengers and smaller airlines have long complained that the major carriers have used deregulation to concentrate their power around key travel hubs, which they then use to chase out competitors and raise prices. "Justice?s move squarely addresses one of the major tactics large carriers have used to create fortress hubs," says Greenwald. It is also another indication that the resurgent antitrust division, under the activist leadership of Joel Klein, is determined to have an impact on the conduct of the nation?s business. Though the division has been tolerant of most mergers, says Greenwald, "it has been wary...
Instead of rallying Republicans, the Balkan showdown has exposed how divided the party is over America's duties in the post-cold war world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
...DETECTING PC? Even when a liar wags his finger, his voice will betray him. That's the premise behind Fortress, a $30 lie-detector program you can download from www.digitalrobotics.com to your PC and use to test your friends and family (with their consent, of course) or sound bites pulled off the Net, TV or radio. It analyzes recordings in any language. Beeps during playback signal an effort to deceive...
...turning out to be a lot more than a grown man's toy. For every stumble that giant Northwest has made at its fortress hub at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport, two-year-old Pro Air has been there waiting to gobble up another dissatisfied customer. This year Pro Air, which now has four 737s, could quadruple its revenue passenger-miles, the industry's standard volume measure, to 600 million miles, from 150 million in 1998. On a recent morning, Stamper gushed like a new father as he watched dozens of passengers milling about Pro Air's hub, the motley...
...FORTRESS PLAY AOL was already America's darling (You've got mail!); Netscape adds a big browser and merges Netcenter's daytime business users with AOL's night owls. Last week MCI chose AOL's CompuServe as the portal for its new Internet service...