Word: queue
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...place of wonder and, like so many works of genius, deeply flawed. The meeting area was shabby and tiny; there were few shops and restaurants air-side. In the event of delays the terminal was soon crammed with a queue for taxis as long as Hong Kong's famous Lantau Trail. Even Kai Tak's greatest fans acknowledge that it had long since reached its capacity, but it didn't make saying goodbye any easier. And no one loved the airport in the guts of the city more than the spotters. To them Kai Tak was the best airport ever...
...hour passed, a small insurrection took hold at the end of the queue. Former Extension School student Heidi Erickson—who gained public notoriety in May when 72 dead Persian cats were discovered in the refrigerators of her two local homes—arrived half an hour late, and the Wordsworth representatives had run out of admission tickets...
...always known that some customers aren't worth the trouble. Now Selden and Colvin show, through vivid examples, how much companies can gain by comprehensively tracking and examining the costs and benefits of each customer relationship. (Fidelity, for instance, puts burdensome callers at the end of a long holding queue and gives quick attention to account holders who deliver more profit...
...else has your attention. When you call your bank to activate your credit card, you get put on hold and pummeled with ads for the bank and its marketing "partners," who know that you know that if you hang up, you lose your place in the telephonic queue. "The base appeal of this trend is that the audience can't opt out," says Dennis Roche, 37, U.S. president of Zoom Media, based in Montreal, which places ads in bathrooms...
...screens again in April with X-Men 2, and in December for Gandalf's last Ring. He's working on plans to film Shakespeare's gay merchant Antonio in The Merchant of Venice. And then? He emits a broad, Gandalf-like chuckle. Outside the theater a queue of young fans await his autograph. They don't look like they've seen Strindberg before...