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...full-service carrier based in Nevada that regales its passengers with California Chardonnays and fancy food baskets, to Morris Air, a low- budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi International, a regional discounter that flies six cozy 727s out of Newark, New Jersey; Private Jet, an Atlanta-based charter service with a fleet of 12 big MD-80s; and Family Airlines of Las Vegas, a start-up backed by 65 former Pan Am pilots. An additional 26 applications from wannabe airlines...
...week the group released a survey of leading brands showing that the ingredients now imprecisely listed on the backs of labels do not add up to the claims made on their fronts. "Manufacturers are cheating consumers by passing off what is mostly apple and grape juice as more expensive kiwi, papaya, raspberry and cherry juice," declared C.S.P.I. legal-affairs director Bruce Silverglade. "If a company is selling strawberry-flavored apple-grape juice, then that's what the product should be called...
Despite the committed, serious tone of the pamphlets, the real motto of the Body Shop should be "food, folks and fun." Everything possible has been flavored and colored, from the soaps to the "Ice Cream Flavored Lip Gloss," which was tasty, but not particularly practical. Sure, Rocky Road and Kiwi Fruit taste yummy, but who wants green or beige lips? Another casualty of the Body Shop's compulsive color-coordination...
...have economic, material problems, but all of them can be solved. At issue is the moral strength of our people. Have we lost some of that during the years of affluence and prosperity? I don't think so. But a layer of butter and kiwi and shrimp has covered our moral strength. It will reappear when we remove that layer. The term idealism was born here -- it was the contribution of German philosophers, and it was abused terribly in this century. There was a backlash, and now we have to achieve a sort of balance...
...city that gave the country personal trainers, liver with kiwi, and Cher ought to be more adventurous than to have a Mayor for Life. But that's what Los Angeles' Tom Bradley is turning out to be. The man the Wall Street Journal calls the "recumbent incumbent" has just been elected to a fifth term, squeaking by with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform...