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...Gulf War, airline bookings dropped 10% and drove even perennially profitable Southwest Airlines into the red. But the industry entered that conflict in much better shape than it is in now. The 18 months since Sept. 11 have been a veritable depression for the airlines, says Gerchick, and the jolt of another Gulf War would keep more travelers grounded and force high fuel prices even higher. Gerchick estimates that the industry might lose $9 billion - more than four times what it lost in all of 1991. No wonder that three major carriers thought to be in decent shape - American, America...
...down a school record-tying seven three-pointers on his way to a career-high 25 points in a triple-overtime, 85-82 defeat of Rider last Tuesday. The final trey broke a two-minute scoreless drought in the third overtime, providing an exhausted Harvard squad a much-needed jolt of energy. A minute later, senior point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman drained the game-winning three-pointer...
...fireman, the pealing of a call-up bell is at once a summons to action, an intimation of danger, and perhaps a foreshadowing of death. Even after 26 years in the job, Tony Collis still gets an adrenaline jolt when the bell begins to ring in central London's Manchester Square Fire Station. But when the familiar clanging began at 9 a.m. last Friday, Collis felt only emptiness. Instead of running for the gear and piling into their red fire engines, Collis and his colleagues strolled somberly to the front of the ornate 19th century red-brick building...
Sandler never seemed to doubt that the world would come around to seeing it his way. He got his big break on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s as part of anew generation of comics that included Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider. They gave a creative jolt to SNL, but the baby-boomer executives at NBC were mystified by Sandler's humor. Michaels says, "The idea that somebody was trying to make people laugh and it wasn't for them or it wasn't aimed at them--that was a big revelation...
...high schoolers that getting into college is no big deal. Williams reflects this point of view when he says of a few of his remedial classmates, "They're not in the real world now, so some are probably more interested in socializing. The real world will be a jolt." If that's true, how can we jolt these kids before they leave high school...