Word: qe2
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Congress must not reduce but rather increase Amtrak funding in light of new air-safety worries. Even the QE2 is regaining its old popularity as a transatlantic carrier. MARVIN L. DOUDNA West Palm Beach, Florida...
...monarch herself in 1967. Both the House of Windsor and the money-losing cruise-ship company, a division of Britain's Trafalgar House PLC, have endured a series of public calamities--although at least the toilets haven't been exploding in Buckingham Palace, as they were aboard the QE2 during its infamous Cruise to Hell in late...
...both outfits are splitting up. Princess Diana may get a couple of cars out of her breakup. No word yet on who will buy the QE2, which along with seven sibling ships is for sale in the wake of a proposed takeover of Trafalgar by Kvaerner, a Norwegian engineering company. Kvaerner is buying Trafalgar for a steerage-priced $1.35 billion. Trafalgar, primarily an engineering and building company, lost nearly $500 million last year on sales of $5.7 billion...
...have our indomitable optimists. An outfit called the Millennium Society has lined up the QE2 to transport 3,000 people, all presumably upbeat, to a huge celebration at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The authors of Megatrends 2000 look to "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform and great cultural rebirth...
...means, approach our fin de siecle, our fin de millennium, with what joy we can muster. Let's get aboard the QE2; let's celebrate at the Great Pyramid or wherever. And then let's get down to work again, and back to reality...