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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What accounts for this decline in decorum? Airlines run a virtually free, open bar in first and business class, where some of the nastiest episodes occur. The booze is supposed to keep customers calm but may be having the opposite effect on some. Others say being deprived of a different vice, cigarettes, is a major cause of unruliness. No wonder Austrian Airlines has said it will offer nicotine-substitute inhalers to passengers once a soon-to-come smoking ban takes effect. Then there are those who blame the airlines themselves. Says Hal Salfen, of the International Airline Passengers Association: "Flights...
Remember that gifting money to heirs is not the same as donating to charity. In the latter case, as long as you write the check this year, you can take the deduction. But gifts occur in the year that the check clears--a quirky distinction...
...whether the trend will continue, but how abruptly the temperature will rise. "Scientists are not sure whether world temperatures will rise linearly, "says Thompson, "or whether there's a threshold beyond which temperatures will skyrocket." Such dramatic warming periods, over as little as a decade, have already occurred in the history of the Earth. And if one were to occur again now, the ecological and social disruptions could be incendiary...
...season basketball game, and Thursday is about the same. "There was absolutely no sense of real worry or panic when word started circulating in the markets yesterday," said one floor trader. "People on the trading floor were taking bets on what time the first air strike would occur." In fact, the markets were almost relieved by the bombing of Iraq, since it delayed an impeachment vote and has cast President Clinton in a strong leadership stance. Oil stocks that spiked sharply at first soon settled back toward normal levels: After all, world markets are overflowing with...
...eight state and local representatives have been named, but ten instead of eight business representatives were. There are no representatives of consumer groups. Governors pushed Congress to make changes and one business representative was dropped for a local person. They are waiting to see what other changes might occur...