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...from somewhere, LTV is almost certain to go belly up, leaving a $3.1 billion pension shortfall for more than 100,000 current and retired -- American -- employees. Beyond secrets and beyond jobs, what's at stake is how the U.S. should cope with an industry that is bound to shrink as the country comes home from the cold...
...Persian Gulf conflict, U.S. airlines have lost more than $6 billion since 1990. American has been no exception: its parent company, AMR, has lost a combined $279 million in the past two years. All that has led Crandall to predict that the number of major carriers will continue to shrink. Says he: "I think there is probably some consolidation left to happen...
...question that we instinctively shrink from. And our incapacity to account for the power that undeniable resides in this music leaves room for cynicism and the logic of the market. Mozart the man is today an inscrutable phenomenon and, as such, we have no reason to assume a priori that his music is good, that his long-dismissed serious operas deserve another look...
...almost feel that people are slighting me, or not taking me seriously, when they call me "Jon," as if they are thinking they can get away with anything less than the real McCoy. "Jon" is the bare minimum--the shortest abbreviation of my name those butchers could possibly shrink it to and still get my attention...
...plays no role in approving individual projects in the series, which was created expressly as a forum for independent, out-of-the-mainstream filmmakers. "It's not that we're out looking for controversy," says P.O.V. executive producer Marc Weiss. "But if we're going to shrink from it, then we might as well put P.O.V. out of business altogether...