Word: pre-sept
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...leisure travelers taking advantage of sale fares have more than made up for their absence. Ryanair recently announced a 39% rise in profits and a 37% load increase for the six months ending Sept. 30, while easyJet posted an annual pretax profit of $58 million--even higher than its pre-Sept. 11 projections...
...margin tickets account for nearly 80% of industry profits. Costs were skyrocketing, pushed by labor contracts negotiated in flush times. And now travelers, worried about security and wary of delays and hassles at airports, are looking for any excuse not to fly. Upshot: airlines have cut flights 20% from pre-Sept. 11 levels, yet planes still flying are at just 65% of capacity, compared with an estimated 73% before the terror attacks...
...with the crisis at hand.” He excoriates Republican proposals for economic stimulus as a ploy to “lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks as an excuse.” And making sure to mock the pre-Sept. 11 agenda for good measure, Krugman offers the baffling claim that Bush’s plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling had little or nothing to do with electricity generation, leaving us to assume that it was motivated by political considerations instead...
Even in the pre-Sept. 11 world, this silly confection, about a 20-year-old bride-to-be who invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends to her wedding on a Greek island so she can find out which one is her father, was an escapist trifle. And the production hardly disguises the frivolousness of what is onstage: the choreography, when it can be deciphered, is unremarkable; the costumes (a mix of disco-glitz and suburban soccer mom, with an odd preponderance of swimwear) are ho-hum; and the cast, headed by Louise Pitre as the free-spirited...
...time of ordinary heroes--fire fighters, airplane passengers--both series aptly focus on the ordinariness of heroism. Smallville's Clark does surreptitious good deeds in between teen heartbreaks; on The Tick, superheroism is just another job, full of headaches and rivalries. And in a way, their pre-Sept. 11 sensibilities are just as appropriate. As their viewers have been urged to do, these postmodern, pre-terror-war creations are living life as they would have lived it on Sept. 10. And these days that is the most superhuman feat...