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...rapid ascent of the company, however, has left some consumers grumbling, citing hidden charges, weird flight itineraries and lousy customer service. "My experience is that you don't get what you think you're gonna get," says Herb Zimmerman, a Lancaster, Pa., stockbroker. "The thing that perturbed me most was the excess charges that were added [to the airline-ticket price] for fuel and miscellaneous." Other customers have complained that hotels rated as four-star turned out to be less than stellar. Frequent user Raquel Johnson of Bloomington, Minn., though happy with the service, warns, "Read all the fine print...
...this appeals to you, don't be ashamed, for you're apparently not alone. Thanks in part to a raucous trailer that has been showing since last spring, Wayans' $19 million comedy has been generating rapid-fire word of mouth. The film's strong "tracking" (surveys that indicate audiences' desire to see an upcoming flick) has inspired the distributor, Miramax's Dimension division, to step up its marketing blitz and increase its opening-day screens from 1,900 to about...
...have doubts. For one thing, at the turn of the millennium, rapid change (technological, social, cultural) has become so pervasive in American life and sometimes so difficult to absorb - think of the genome project and its implications, to cite one of a thousand examples in a world of techno-miracle and deconstructed tradition - that voters might actually prefer continuity of political leadership...
Pelton, the president of Willamette University, has made diversity one of his top priorities. He has also expressed deep interest in the rapid advance of technology and new ethical dilemmas created by science...
Change that is too rapid can be deeply divisive; if only an elite can keep up, the rest of us will grow increasingly mystified about how the world works. We can understand natural biology, subtle as it is, because it holds still. But how will we ever be able to understand quantum computing or nanotechnology if its subtlety keeps accelerating away from...