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...major airlines find themselves wedged between newly intractable unions and a group of low-cost, no-frills competitors, like Southwest Airlines, which have slashed both costs and ticket prices. For example, Southwest's round-trip fare from Baltimore, Maryland, to Los Angeles is $209; an American ticket is $418. So profitable is Southwest ($73 million in 1992) that last week it ordered 63 new Boeing 737 airplanes, a rare event for the industry. A new entry called Eastwind, for example, will offer rock-bottom fares in January to specific cities and last week announced it will serve Atlanta...
...business. Continental Airlines, which emerged from bankruptcy last April, has launched CALite, a back-to-basics "cheapie service" based in Houston. Even though it uses union workers, CALite pulled in $1 million more than expected in October, its first month. Delta is also studying the feasibility of starting a low-cost airline...
...center provides a variety of housing programs, including free and low-cost units, and a number of counseling and job placement opportunities...
...hound-dog ears and aggressive charm. Already wealthy and successful at 54, he left the presidency of Burlington Industries to buy a 150-acre vineyard in Temecula, California. Rather than sit around and watch his grapes grow, Callaway developed top-grade wines and promoted them by traveling and offering low-cost oenophile seminars to hotel and restaurant employees. By 1982 Callaway was selling 73,000 cases annually...
Brokers usually pass the low-cost shares only to clients who generate the fattest commissions. Foley, a stock-market neophyte with a small account, does not fit that profile. "Foley may just be lucky in the stock market," comments Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. "But it raises the question, Did he get a special deal, and why do people want to be so especially nice to members of Congress...