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...largest U.S. carrier. Its secret: low costs that enable it to undersell the competition, along with unusually strong employee morale. The average annual salary for People Express's 14,000 full-time employees, who are all nonunion, is just over $20,000 a year, less than half the norm at larger airlines. But every employee is a stockholder and works hard. A People Express customer-service manager is a Jack-(or Jill) of-all-trades whose duties include serving as check-in clerk and flight attendant, plus stints at tasks ranging from accounting to fuel management...
...third best in the major leagues, that in his four years he had about cultivated a crop to contend with his mid-'70s Reds. The city and the organization had been waiting somewhat longer, having held on so stubbornly to the World Champion Tigers of 1968-Al Kaline, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Jim Northrup et al.-until that whole class expired practically in unison. A tendency to sentiment was understandable, though. In July of 1967, Detroit had hosted one of the biggest and bloodiest of the race riots: 43 people were killed. And the forecast...
...remains: whether we were strange when we came in, or did we become strange. Looking at the time off taken by Lionel residents provides just one indication that, as Mary says, "more people in Lionel struggled with more aspects of their Harvard experience" than otherwise seems to be the norm. It is not just the sheer number of Lionel people who decided to take time off to try and find themselves--eight of the original 18--but also where they chose to look. There wasn't one "typical" Harvard time off job, not one Capital Hill job or journalism internship...
...palate (used in the broadest sense) would rate. At first I hoped it would be judged "super," but then I felt that would mean my taste judgments might not be typical enough to be reliable for nonprofessionals. No need to have worried. Dr. Bartoshuk found that I matched the norm on intensity ratings. However, my sensitivity to tastes at very low concentrations was well above normal. That is due partly to naturally low thresholds but also to my experience as a taster...
While the garb may seem unusual, the actors are taking part in one of Harvard's oldest theatrical traditions, the all-male Hasty Pudding show, where effeminacy is a virtue and padded bras are the norm...