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American is fighting little Legend so hard because business travelers are the lifeblood of most airlines. Though these full-fare passengers--"road warriors," in air-travel lingo--make up just 10% of the typical carrier's customers, they account for nearly half its revenue. So adding or losing a few business types per flight can mean the difference between a profit and a loss--or, in Legend's case, between a new airline that thrives and one that does not. That's a daunting prospect in an industry that has seen only one airline, America West, survive...
...course, it's not as important what you study as what you do. The lifeblood of Harvard is its extracurricular universe; with more than 250 independent student groups, everyone gets to be president...
...technology businesses are popping up by the second, urged into existence by the hundreds of venture capital firms, the lifeblood of start-ups. In its own small way, Harvard is contributing to this boom, through the investment of its $14.4 billion endowment...
...taxation. There are currently no sales taxes on items bought on the Internet, a situation that has states concerned about lost revenue and traditional retailers worried about lost business. As e-commerce grows, it will take a bigger bite out of the sales tax revenue that is the lifeblood of many states. And if the feds plan to police the Web, they'll need to find a way to pay for it. So if you thought that tax-free, unprescribed order of Viagra was too good to last, you were probably right...
...that Stereolab rocked. The aloof, polished, heavy-handed studio sound that many know the band by was shattered by gushing torrents of feedback and throbbing backbeats your ears just reveled in. From the minute they took the stage until the minute they left, the band pumped out and endless lifeblood of sound, filling the vaulted bordello-ballroom space of the Roxy to capacity...