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...survival tactic in an air-transportation market dominated by bigger rivals. No other U.S. airline, though, has ever expanded as quickly as People. Burr was confident in the price advantage that People's low-wage, nonunionized employees produced over other carriers: 5.28 cents to fly a passenger one mile last year, vs. the industry average of 8.6 cents. He was overly blithe as he pushed his company into Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth, the territory of two major rivals, Delta and American. People gained size but it failed to gain strength...
...morning was calm and clear--a perfect day for aerial sightseeing over the Grand Canyon. But by 9:30, 25 tourists had perished after two aircraft collided in midair about one mile south of the gorge's north rim. There were no survivors...
...aerial tours of the canyon. Sightseeing flights are the bane of local environmentalists, who hate the noise, and air-safety experts, who say that too much traffic crowds the canyon's skies. The National Park Service estimates that more than 50,000 flights are made over the 277-mile- long canyon annually. Last week's accident brings to 57 the number killed in 14 crashes around the canyon over the past five years. Yet two days after the disaster, tourists were again queuing up for the spectacular flights...
...disappeared at the end of the 19th century," says Parker, the hero "became a man, alone, facing an urban wilderness." A more precise definition of the breed came naturally enough from Chandler, the American-born, British-educated creator of Philip Marlowe, the detective who got more similes to the mile than anybody before or since ("as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"). Laid down in his essay The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler's description of the fictional American detective has the power of an ecclesiastical oath: "He is a relatively poor man, or he would...
...systems that will divide standard voice telephone lines into three digital channels, allowing telephone customers to plug terminals directly into their wall sockets, without benefit of modem, and to program their phones like computers. Networking firms, such as 3Com, Sytek, Ungermann- Bass and Network Systems Corp., are stringing up mile after mile of high- speed coaxial and optical fiber cables and offering communications rates in excess of 275 million bits of information a second...