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...morning head race, it took a little while for us to find a good rhythm,” Finelli said. “By the time we were way down, we were trying to fend off Cornell. We were rowing pretty well by the middle mile, but towards the third mile, we were getting a little tired and were still fending off Cornell...
...Florida, will allow its entire $2 million emergency budget to be used for in-state advertising, and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a massive direct-mail campaign throughout the Southeast. Las Vegas is directing a $13 million advertising effort at markets within a 750-mile radius. One week after the terror attacks, the management at the tony Canyon Ranch spa persuaded 67 East Coast-based guests who would have canceled flights to its Tucson, Ariz., resort to drive instead to the branch in Lenox, Mass...
...offset the loss of revenue per customer? Immediately after the attacks, airlines avoided discounts, figuring that anybody still interested in flying would pay top dollar. Now they are discounting in the hope of filling planes. Before Sept. 11 airlines needed to collect between 10[cents] and 12[cents] a mile for each seat to break even, but now that has gone...
...unsuspecting passers-by go absolutely wonky with disbelief, envy or dog-in-heat desire. But I can’t really justify kicking my breasts into high gear only to have them freeze up and fall off, shriveled and stunned at having been exposed to brutal, Boston-style, 90-mile-per-hour, “but-it-was-75-degrees-yesterday” winds. No, these suckers are staying locked away for now, destined to spend this fall-winter season behind Gap’s latest chunky-monkey, high-neck sweater...
...stations were shut down two days last week because of bioterrorism scares. An SUV cab on its way to a Capitol Hill party was stopped because it bore an unfamiliar logo. Georgetown was nearly shut down Thursday night when the Hash House Harriers, a running club which marks each mile covered with a pile of white flour, was mistaken for anthrax-spewing members of Al Qaeda. Yet at former Majority leader Mike Mansfield's burial at Arlington Cemetery last week, with half the Senate in attendance, only those who entered on the Fort Myer side got the dog-sniffing...