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...Detroit Three, though, held out. When they ran into trouble in the early 1980s, the UAW gave some ground on benefits. But in the 1990s the automakers came roaring back to profitability--helped by falling gas prices (which boosted the pickup and SUV segments still dominated by Detroit), a booming stock market (which made pensions easier to finance) and a slowdown in medical-cost inflation...
RAJIV MEHTA, OWNER OF AN INTERIOR-DESIGN company in New Delhi, has come to dread his frequent business trips in India. Typically his flight approaches its destination only to have to circle the airport because of congestion on the ground. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than ever. But they are enjoying it less, because more than half of all domestic flights are delayed 30 min. or more. "We needed this boom because people need to travel and we need choice," Mehta says. "But in some ways...
Ever since Roe, politicians seeking a middle ground on abortion have been attracted to this notion of personal opposition but official toleration. Its roots go back to John F. Kennedy's famous speech to the Protestant ministers of Houston, in which Kennedy essentially offered voters a deal: If you won't allow my religion to affect the way you vote, I won't allow my religion to affect the way I govern. Giuliani and Romney both want that deal...
...programmer who endures the taunts of a dim-witted manager because the programmer is in love with the receptionist. "It's about having an escape fantasy but being unable to act on it," Coulton, a programmer himself, says. "We spend so much time at the office, it's fertile ground for emotional content...
...city is building a $275 million Center for the Performing Arts downtown that will feature a theater designed by Ur-Euro architect Rem Koolhaas; when Dallas broke ground on a bridge across the Trinity River in 2005, it was working not from, say, a practical Army Corps plan but from a soaring design by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava. It would be silly to suggest these projects were built with gays in mind--the Koolhaas theater is largely funded by Republicans Charles and Dee Wyly--but the architectural ornamentation does help explain why Dallas is more appealing to gays than...