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...cruise industry, once thought recession-proof, is rolling out the deep-discount gangway in this crisis. Chicagoan Shirlee Yeary says she and her husband "were going to forget our winter getaway this year because of the economy." But her travel agency, Cruise Holidays, saw a deluxe cabin for a week in the Caribbean on a brand new ship, the Celebrity Solstice, at almost half price. For $1,100 per person, Yeary, who says she's never experienced the swank side of cruising, also gets a veranda, complimentary champagne, daily hors d'oeuvres and preferential treatment on shore excursions. "I wasn...
...check [easyJet's] website." Not far from Legrand's house in Nice, the easyCruiseOne was docked, set against the muted tones of the port like a brushstroke in orange across a Monet. "Have you ever seen a ship as orange as that?" beamed Stelios at the gangway...
...book--looks remarkably tame these days. You can fly into Baghdad's Saddam International Airport on one of the embargo-busting planes from Jordan or Syria or Lebanon that make regular runs--even if you are greeted by blood-red DOWN WITH AMERICA slogans daubed along the gangway in English. All the capital's buildings, bridges and roads damaged in the 1991 war and in follow-up American attacks in 1998 have been rebuilt. Fancy shops selling the goods of globalization line the posh streets of the al-Mansur neighborhood, and even the poor man's market in the Washash...
...that doesn't mean it's time to sell. "Gangway, everybody. Here comes Dell," writes FORTUNE senior writer Andrew Serwer in FORTUNE Business Report. "There's so much more market share to be had, and it doesn't even have to take it from Compaq, IBM or Hewlett Packard." Serwer says Dell is poised for another major...
...YEAR FROM NOW, WHEN Steve Forbes' accountant totals up his client's 1996 spending, he may just scratch his head over what Mr. Forbes got for his money. Well, for one thing, when tassel-loafered ad buyers climb the gangway of the Highlander, the Forbes Inc. yacht, they will probably think they're hobnobbing not with the shy, bespectacled son of a legendary hot-air-balloon-flying publisher but with a once and perhaps future presidential candidate. Forbes made the Oedipal analogy himself last week when he said, with a smile, that if he won the Connecticut primary, "I wouldn...