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Since last summer, a flurry of crushing financial blows has turned an already brutal culling process into a full-scale rout. The airlines were loaded with debt after a decade of mergers, frantic expansion and multibillion-dollar orders for new aircraft. The approach of the gulf war brought a sharp run-up in oil prices, adding $2 billion, or 12.5%, to the industry's jet-fuel costs. Then, in a desperate bid to fill seats as the recession deepened and war jitters sidelined travelers, U.S. airlines slashed fares. By last April, 95% of all U.S. air passengers were traveling...
...Hansen burned two defenders to tally an unassisted goal and then watched as teammate Liz Berkery fed a waiting Tracy Hackeling, who stuffed home another score. Berkery then recorded a goal off of a freeposition shot. With 20:26 left in the half, the game was already a rout, and a silenced Dartmouth coaching staff could do nothing more than look on in dismay as its team was repeatedly victimized by the Crimson's sharp play...
...When the rout continued, Harvard rattled off another 10 points before the Crusaders avoided the whitewash with a final-play weak-side...
...first game, the batsmen jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the second and adding three more in the fourth. They then turned the game into a rout by scoring nine runs in an explosive fifth inning...
...brutal suppression of the rebels, George Bush has borne the brunt of the blame for Western inaction. The President not only failed to explain clearly why the U.S. was unwilling to support the insurgents, but he seemed to show no mercy when their rebellion turned into a rout. Declared Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory: "The sight of those wretched souls streaming into Turkey . . . as Bush abandons them on the 18th hole of a Florida golf course, makes you wonder if in this case it is peace, rather than war, that is hell...