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...were prohibited from flying above 23,000 ft. until they could be thoroughly checked out. At higher altitudes, the cabin must be pressurized to a greater extent and more strain is put on the fuselage. Among those airlines most severely affected by last week's ruling were American and Piedmont. After inspecting the damaged jet, Joseph Nall, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, declared, "My hope is that it will raise the consciousness" of air carriers and regulators about the hazards of overworked planes...
Sponsored by Piedmont Airlines, the concert's "free stuff" motif conjured up exotic images: a round-the-world ticket, a spring break trip, perhaps even a week with the Dins in Bangkok on their 1988 summer tour. What the Dins' peers, parents and other sophisticated patrons received was much more creative: cucumbers, Dippity Doo, a can of tuna and a thousand other trinkets...
Once the Dins had promoted the idea, by postering and word-of-mouth, Piedmont actually offered to donate a few round-trip tickets and t-shirts to the cause. But self-styled Stuff Manager Bruce Condit and the others decided that "crap for everyone was better than a few good doorprizes...
...mileage has sharply increased the rate at which passengers rack up miles -- and free trips. Says H.G. ("Red") MacKenzie, vice president of the American Society of Travel Agents: "Triple mileage is stupid. The airlines have given away the candy store." Agrees Dan Brock, senior vice president for marketing at Piedmont: "There's no question that the move was excessive...
...Auschwitz, The Reawakening and Moments of Reprieve read as if revenge (a dish best eaten cold, advises the proverb) were a matter of patient qualitative analysis. In The Periodic Table (1984), Levi even used the known basic elements as metaphors for human characteristics. His Jewish ancestors from the Piedmont, for example, resembled argon: "Inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated, and gratuitous discussion...