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...world of deregulation, airlines have foundered from a deadly mix of overexpansion and downward pressure on fares. Then there is Midwest Express Airlines, an upstart based in Milwaukee, Wis., that pampers customers with wide leather seats, free champagne and provisions that arrive on china--and thus far has a habit of pulling premium fares from passengers' pockets...
...made winning a habit," Silva said. "We were confident in every game. We were never really a cocky team, just a confident...
What proved to cause the Crimson's collapse was its lack of offensive production. Line changes became habit as Tomassoni desperately tried to find cohesive units. The power-play was nothing short of horrific with only a 10.8-percent success rate, at one point embarking on an historic 0-for-55 scoreless streak...
...wager on sports events, enter lotteries and play casino games--is still in its infancy. Between $100 million and $200 million will be gambled online this year worldwide, says Whittier Law School professor and gaming-industry expert I. Nelson Rose. That's just a tiny portion of the national habit, of course. Americans legally hazarded an astonishing half a trillion dollars in 1995, earning the gaming industry profits of $44.4 billion--more than the net revenue from movies, music and sports entertainment combined. But as the Web becomes ubiquitous, online gambling will grab an ever larger slice of this multibillion...
These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different habit-forming products, seem to have been destined for a literary rendezvous. But where? Escobar and his remorseless crew are too malignant for Garcia Marquez's familiar magic realism. Fortunately, the author learned the writer's trade in journalism, where the best editorial advice still comes from Hamlet's mother: "More matter, with less...