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Normally, the start of the summer travel season means just one thing to the U.S.'s $33 billion airline industry. As vacationers pack up and jet away by the millions, bookings rise, revenues soar and profits scoot skyward. This season the travelers will be there once again. But the nation's leading air carriers are awaiting the throngs of eager customers with attitudes ranging from uncertainty to downright trepidation. At every turn, the once proud commercial aviation business is being buffeted by economic change, and the shake-out is altering the whole structure of U.S. air travel...
...immense and dramatic mural of Daniel Webster addressing Congress overlooks the slowly filling courtroom. Hospitality committee members scoot around distributing miniature American flags and pins and ushers frantically direct the noisy audience of friends and family to their seats. Only the immigrants remain almost ominously silent as they line up at the doorway and wait to pass through the strait of naturalization tables lining the entrance to the courtroom. Many of them refuse to answer questions, saying the procedure means nothing to them but an afternoon off from work. But many describe with relish their new lives in the United...
...Harvard women's soccer team braved temperatures in the mid 20s and a rock-hard field to scoot past the University of Northern Colorado, 3-1, yesterday afternoon in the opening round of the National Intercollegiate women's soccer championships in Colorado Springs...
Brown's flashy, fancy forward Frances Fusco won the MVP honors. She can scoot, but not much else. My offensive MVP was Laurie Gregg. And on defense, I'll take Goldsberry. Give them co-awards, but first, put them on the first team...
...familiar chores as setting up a TV camera, placing various scientific instruments around their landing site, and collecting rocks and samples of the dusty lunar soil. Then they return to the ship to prepare for more far-ranging exploration. When the spacecraft's big hatch reopens, the astronauts scoot out, pedaling away as if they were on bicycles...