Word: midlands
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...major industry restructuring may be on the way. Look for discounters to gain even more market share and for some of the majors to merge. Worst hit will be the mid-sized players: the chief executive of British Midland, the U.K.'s second-largest airline, conceded this month that B.M.I. needs to adopt low-cost principles and forge alliances with other airlines to survive...
...veteran of the low-cost skies. He's on the road at least twice a month and estimates that 10% of his travel is on discounters. His round-trip fare cost $47 on Ryanair, and would have cost at least four times as much on British Airways, British Midland or Lufthansa. But he's found out that reduced flexibility is part of the price business travelers pay to get a cheap fair on the discounters. "When your ticket is completely nonrefundable, you have to make your flight," he says ruefully. "That can be a major problem when meetings run late...
This is also, needless to say, a moment of truth for President George W. Bush, the Man from Midland, elected by the barest of electoral margins and held in contempt by so many (especially here at Harvard). His presidency now will be judged not on budget surpluses or prescription drug benefits, but on his response to this sudden trial by fire. Bush has suddenly become a wartime president—and this is a war, make no mistake, one that began when America first stretched out its hand to support the state of Israel, and has continued through Lebanon...
...Some college friends say that much of Bush's antagonism towards Yale was contrived, an attitude adopted after his Ivy League pedigree was used against him in his failed 1978 bid to become a Congressman from Midland, Texas. Even his friends in Midland would tease Bush about his preppie East Coast ways, especially his habit of wearing tattered penny loafers without socks. It wasn't long before he chucked the loafers in favor of cowboy boots and was vowing that he would never again allow a political opponent - or a business one, for that matter - to portray...
...Chapter Two: College Days After graduating from Midland Lutheran College, Cliff pursues graduate work in physics and geology at the University of Nebraska. He drops out in 1939 to marry his first wife and begins work at the tiny Nebraska Book Company. Leaves his job briefly for a stint as a meteorologist in the Army Air Corps...