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After her chief rival, Ansett, ceased operations last September, Qantas Airways chairman Jackson, 49, pulled international aircraft back to Australia and helped 110,000 stranded Ansett passengers fly for little or nothing. The goodwill was repaid: domestic earnings jumped nearly 60% this year. Qantas this month will issue more than...
For fans, Selig's last-minute attempts this week to avoid baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972 have only added to his demerits. While polls show the majority of Americans back the owners on this year's most contentious points - revenue sharing and luxury tax - that goodwill does not...
Numbers $34 million is the amount the U.S. decided to withhold from U.N. family planning programs, claiming that the money would have been partially used to support abortions in China 77,000 child deaths could have been prevented if the U.S. paid the dues it owed to the U.N. Population...
Forget cultural exchanges. Australian airline Qantas has concluded that in these perilous times the way to generate goodwill among nations is to have a movie star fly his own plane to cities like Paris and Hong Kong. Last week Qantas named John Travolta its "ambassador-at-large," announcing that he...
The pledge became one of those gestures of an innocent and anodyne "ceremonial deism," like "In God We Trust." It's no big deal--not an organized religious agenda or otherwise a threat to the Constitution but rather a vague reassurance of collective goodwill. If you challenge the pledge, however...