Word: letters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to a letter to members of the American Council on Education (ACE) yesterday by council president Stanley O. Ikenberry, colleges and universities only recently became able to join...
...Ikenberry wrote in the letter that many member institutions of the ACE had expressed concerns about the problem of sweatshop labor in factories producing college insignia apparel. He suggested they might find their solution by affiliating with...
...which have already seen their commission payments cut by the airlines at the same time that the agencies' business is being eroded by customers using the Internet. "We don't have that kind of money. We're just going to go out of business," says Pisa, who got a letter from American Airlines demanding $16,000 for stolen tickets written on her ticket stock. The airline later relented because Pisa had followed recommended security guidelines. But Georgette Bouland-Anthe, a travel agent in Libertyville, Ill., who lost 6,000 blank tickets to the ring and owes the airlines...
Last month Pisa wrote Arizona Senator John McCain, a sponsor of an airline-passenger bill of rights, to tell him about the stolen plane tickets. Intrigued, McCain forwarded Pisa's letter to the Justice Department. It arrived just about the time the INS was arresting those illegals trying to fly out of Phoenix. Pisa's hope is that a Government Accounting Office report due out in June will recommend that the airlines be forced to scan tickets, thereby rendering stolen ticket stock worthless. For some travel agents, that will be a little too late...
Especially as Hare does not always take kindly to criticism. In 1989, when then New York Times theater critic Frank Rich gave his play The Secret Rapture a bad review, Hare wrote a very public letter blasting the power of the paper. Even now, let's just say he noticed that the Times did not adore The Blue Room...