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Officially, the FAA blames the weather for 70% of this year's delays -- frequent fog and thunderstorms have plagued the busy Northeast, and other storms assaulted the Midwest. Any weather hitch quickly gets amplified in the prevailing system of hub airports, in which large airlines attract commuter feeders to major cities. A significant delay at one hub quickly affects ( connecting flights there and spreads to other centers...
...walls, embossed memo pads, napkins, playing cards, cigarette packages and matches with the presidential seal and inscriptions like "Aboard Air Force One." The new plane will be hardened against electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear explosion. When it lands at a distant airport, it can become a complete communications hub for the presidential party...
People might have stayed out of financial trouble had it not been for Burr's $305 million purchase last November of Denver-based Frontier Airlines. Frontier, a conventionally priced, full-service carrier, was already battered at its hub by competition from Texas Air subsidiary Continental and from United. Burr's Denver foray violated one of the initial ingredients in People's formula for success: offer no-frills travel in areas away from heavy competition. Says Burr in retrospect: "When we bought Frontier, our competitors decided Denver was going to be a battleground. It still...
Quick! Name a city in Argentina. Almost certainly, the first response would be Buenos Aires, the country's cultural, business and tourist hub, and for 105 years its capital. Last week President Raul Alfonsin proposed moving the seat of government to Patagonia, a wind-blasted region 475 miles to the southwest. In making his suggestion, Alfonsin described Buenos Aires as an "excessive megalopolis." The 11 million residents of the metropolitan area represent 35% of the country's population...
...close to the heart of Seventh Avenue, the hub of the domestic rag trade. Staging "The East Village" there is a bit like lobbing a firecracker into a country club where the members are all snoozing in their lounge chairs. Geographically, the East Village is about two miles from the garment center, but spiritually the distance could be measured in light-years. Many of the women and men who started the American garment business came from immigrant families who clustered in the tenements of the Lower East Side. That is much the same territory covered by today's East Village...