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...current rebellion started when Pearl Jam laid plans for a low-cost tour their young fans could afford. They wanted their tickets to cost no more than $18.50, with service fees held to $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, arguing that it must charge $2 or more to cover its costs. Pearl Jam hired Sullivan & Cromwell, the prestigious Manhattan law firm. In a memorandum filed with the Justice Department, the lawyers claimed that Ticketmaster's control over tickets and its exclusive contracts with most of the leading concert arenas constitute anticompetitive behavior that enables it to prop up prices. Soul Asylum, another popular...
...curse to a perpetually troubled industry that has lost more than $11 billion in the past four years alone. Just last week Delta Airlines said it would eliminate as many as 15,000 jobs, or 20% of its work force, in a move to help it compete with low-cost rivals like Southwest Airlines. And United said it lost nearly $100 million in the first quarter because of competition from the no-frills carriers. Amid such relentless bloodletting, some 10 million frequent flyers traveled free on U.S. airlines in 1993, an amount equal to 7% of all passenger traffic. While...
Fortunately, solving TPC's problems could be relatively easy, if TPS management were amenable. The answer has three parts. First, TPC should slash its prices by a few percent, so as to come in line with those charged students at other universities. Second, TPC should offer free or low-cost delivery to students living in Harvard housing, just as it delivers to faculty members in their offices. And third, TPC should begin actually selling small-ticket items, like modems, interface cards and software from its conventientaly-located showroom near Claverly Hall...
Hoffmann added that Europe's economic position is threatened by cheap labor from the Pacific Rim nations. Not even Germany's lauded industrial sector can long withstand the dumping of low-cost products like textiles and clothing, he said...
...report] clearly states that most cancer pain can be treated effectively through simple, low-cost means," he said...