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...radical makeover and growth of the now defunct Braniff International Airways; in Mustique, West Indies. He perked up the airline with brightly colored planes and Pucci-designed flight-attendant uniforms (with help from Mary Wells, an ad executive who later became his wife), before a recession and high fuel prices drove the airline out of business...
Like Charles Krauthammer, I was surprised and pleased by the speed of the victory over al-Qaeda and the Taliban [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 24]. However, I was dismayed by Krauthammer's triumphalist rhetoric, which at times approached jingoism. Such language can only fuel the still smoldering fires of hatred of the U.S. Our bombs have changed no one's world view but our own. The Taliban soldiers who switched sides will again disappear into the mountains. The Arab street is quiet only because those who filled it a few weeks ago are home nursing their wounds. For a small but important...
...week late last year, more than 40 people were executed. China is the world's top executioner; it is estimated that as many as 5,000 people have been put to death in the past year. Official reports say more than 30% of robberies in China are committed to fuel the habits of its 900,000 known drug addicts...
...overt credence to the worries about consumer debt that have cropped up lately, though rising mortgage rates are certainly part of that.) Businesses, without consumer demand (or, for that matter, much in the way of profits) to inspire them, may be slow to begin the capital investments that will fuel the next expansion...
...course, are otherwise known as mortgage rates - the ones that keep consumers buying homes, refinancing mortgages and generally feeling flush. They have an annoying tendency to act independently of Greenspan's wishes. And expensive money for borrowing consumers - and borrowing corporations - are nobody's idea of economic rocket fuel...