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...lifeblood of most airlines. Though these full-fare passengers--"road warriors," in air-travel lingo--make up just 10% of the typical carrier's customers, they account for nearly half its revenue. So adding or losing a few business types per flight can mean the difference between a profit and a loss--or, in Legend's case, between a new airline that thrives and one that does not. That's a daunting prospect in an industry that has seen only one airline, America West, survive out of the 58 that got off the ground between...
...ensure that he brings in the buzz that drives the biz, Arnault hires edgy, critically acclaimed young designers who never made a centime of profit when they ran their own houses but who excel at engaging, exciting and infuriating the fashion press. Arnault points to John Galliano's spring collections for Dior this year as typical of what he wants from his designers. "His ideas are not meant to be worn," Arnault says of the avant-gardish collection of bag-lady-style ball gowns, "but the ideas descend down to pret-a-porter and to everything in the line...
...congressional ban continues and stem-cell research remains almost entirely in the hands of biotech companies. "That's actually the worst-case scenario because now the public has no input," says Larry Goldstein, a cell biologist at University of California at San Diego. "Companies have to be motivated by profit, so they aren't necessarily going to tell us what they're doing...
...course given by the sensitive teaching fellow who wants to bring some feeling back to this goddam heartless place. In an online program, who will teach Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 201: "Gay, Female, Korean and Living: Where Is the Love?"? Who will teach Social Protest and Profit: "Capitalist Swine: A Guide to Applying for Government Grants...
...front lines in the battle against disease. But no obstacle should stand in the way of responsible investigation of their possibilities. To that end, the work should be funded and supervised by the Federal Government through the National Institutes of Health. That will avoid abuses by for-profit corporations, avoid secrecy and destructive competition between laboratories and ensure the widest possible dissemination of scientific breakthroughs. Human trials should be conducted either on the NIH campus or in carefully monitored clinical facilities...