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...planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines, which have insisted that their members, not lower-paid commuter pilots, fly the jets...
Like it or not, drinking is a mainstay of college life. Ideally, alcohol would be consumed responsibly and in moderation and alcohol poisoning, aspiration or falling off roofs in a drunken stupor (all causes of the deaths of various college students over the past several years) would never occur. Although we are aware that we do not live in an ideal world, irresponsible drinking needs to stop and more efforts to heighten the awareness of rising first-years needs to start...
Michael E. Kinsley '72, a friend of Dowd's, and also once a Crimson executive, quickly picked up the challenge in his on-line magazine Slate (www.slate.com). The Slate 60 is now a mainstay of the magazine, listing the top 60 American donors for each quarter of the year...
Zoom forward to last week, when Fisher's strategy seemed to be coming a cropper--to say nothing of being in need of cropping. With the company's new computerized camera systems running up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and its mainstay 35-mm color film under attack from lower-priced Fuji Photo Film in the U.S. and a strong dollar abroad, Kodak said its 1997 operating earnings could fall as much as 25% below the results for last year. That marked the third distress flag on Kodak earnings this year and caused the company's stock...
...year of female singer/songwriters; a summer for Lilith Fair to prosper in the wake of its participants' success; the post-Morissette calm after the storm: Emotionally-charged solo girl performers have been a recent mainstay on commercial radio and they are welcomed with open arms...