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There is one surprise awaiting the industry. This week lame-duck Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is expected to issue long-anticipated and controversial "competition guidelines," which the big airlines have tried for years to fend off. The document will give detailed definitions of what constitutes predatory behavior and unfair methods of competition. The guidelines will, for the first time since deregulation, allow the DOT wide latitude in looking into the subtle ways competition can be affected. For instance, if a large airline threatens vendors who offer their services to start-up airlines, the new rules would let the DOT move...
Christmas season, 2000: Rodney King rhetoric ("Can't we all just get along?") competes with language that sounds like the runup to the Civil...
...state agreed to pay it in May 1999, but Byrd has yet to see any money. In Texas, officials in the Attorney General's office say the state legislature needs to meet in order to appropriate funds to pay Byrd--but it still hasn't done so. State senator Rodney Ellis plans to introduce a bill in January to make it easier to collect compensation, but observers say it is not likely to pass. The situation is somewhat better in California, where in September Governor Gray Davis signed a law to pay innocent men and women $100 for every...
Imagine that there were riots in Los Angeles right now just like the ones that we saw after the Rodney King verdict. Suppose that in the face of what people saw as a travesty of justice, they took to the streets and smashed stores and offices and attacked the police (which they did in L.A.). Now imagine that in response, the United States called in the army to restore order, firing on civilians with live ammunition, and using Apache helicopters and anti-tank missiles to destroy neighborhoods. Would anyone think this was reasonable? Would anyone blame the rioters...
Past Class Day speakers have included Coretta Scott King in 1968, actor Rodney Dangerfield in 1978, Mother Teresa in 1982 and comic Conan C. O'Brien '85 last June...