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Having brutally slashed costs, staff and service over the past decade, the big airlines still lose money. High fuel prices are a culprit, triggering American's $328 million first-quarter loss, but so is excess capacity, which keeps airlines from raising prices enough to earn a profit. The skimping has turned flying into an ordeal for most passengers. And new "open skies" agreements that have deregulated international travel give better-capitalized foreign airlines more access to travelers to and from the U.S. This accretion of failure has caused some in the industry to lose faith. "There really is no such...
...like E. E. Cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg and one of only two for-profit poetry-only stores in the country, would have to spend money changing all of their mailing labels and packaging, and it may at first lose customers who have trouble finding the street with a different name. It could be enough to put the struggling bookstore, which was sold in 2006 after losing money for two years, out of business...
...fact of the matter is that both the embattled politician and his or her spouse stand to lose big if their marriage itself ends in scandal. For the former, this can mean further tarnishing an already-troubled political career, and for the latter a second professional sacrifice made for personal reasons...
...Last year France was shocked to lose its third-place position in global art sales to China, whose 7.3% stake ranked it behind 41.7% for the U.S. and 29.7% for Britain; France's take was just 6.4%, according to a recent study by art specialist Artprice. Just three decades ago, French art sales made up a quarter of the world total. But the picture gets even worse in the modern art sector, where French activity in 2007 represented a mere 2.8% stake of the world market, Artprice reported...
...instinct is for greater engagement with China. "It's in America's interests as well as Europe's to reform our international institutions now. China is knocking on the door to be part of the international institutions," he says. "As China and India become more important, we will lose the moment at which we can persuade them that it's really in everybody's interests to be part of a reformed international system...