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...Miles are the global currency right now," says Jim Davidovich, who runs United Airlines' frequent-flyer program. "It's not the euro, it's the mile. And it's hot." So hot that Randy Petersen, who began InsideFlyer magazine as a one-man operation in 1986, now has 32 employees and several websites, including Flyertalk.com This is where you go for buzz on the best promotions and the boasts of frequent flyers who make Phillips look bush league. "There's one guy out there with 13 million miles," Petersen says...
...flyer program. "Healthy Choice, Citibank, Hilton and Avis are all buying little pieces of the ticket." Partner companies pay about 2[cents] a mile, which can add up to more than an airline makes on a straight round-trip sale. "They're not giving anything away for free," says Petersen, who estimates a $2 billion windfall for the airlines in 1999. Still, Petersen says, no more than 15% or 16% of the seats on each flight are available to reward flyers unless they pay 40,000 miles rather than...
...that bit of history with the voters of Iowa. "Let me introduce a friend of mine to you," Gore purred to Bradley as a man in dungarees stood up in the audience at their first debate in the state. "Why did you vote against the disaster relief for Chris Petersen when he and thousands of other farmers here in Iowa needed it after those '93 floods?" It stung, and Bradley's only response was to change the subject. So dominant was Gore's performance that day that the top Alpha Male phoned to pay homage. "You looked like a President...
...impossible. Just ask State Representatives Jay R. Kaufman (D-Lexington) and Douglas W. Petersen (D-Marblehead). They were the only members of the House to vote against accepting the committee report that contained the changes to the Clean Elections law. Unfortunately, for many others, integrity is still too great a political risk...
...somehow improves memory by increasing the flow of blood to the brain. Leading memory experts, however, are skeptical about ginkgo and other brain boosters. "Most of these products have not been investigated to any significant extent that would warrant the claims that are being made,'' says Dr. Ronald Petersen, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Other geriatricians are more blunt. All the hoopla, they say, is merely a case of the placebo effect run amuck: people want their memories to get better, so they do. Give them a sugar pill, and they probably wouldn't know...