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...fare carriers are obsessed with keeping costs down and treating customers well. They work hardest at employee relations, aware that labor troubles have helped sink several major airlines. The low-fare airlines shun extravagances, from linen napkins to fancy airport lounges. In contrast to some major airline CEOs, who pocketed hefty compensation packages even as their airlines were losing billions of dollars, executives at low-fare airlines are out helping load bags when necessary and are tying their pay to their firms' performance. The small airlines have also done away with or reduced the traditional charges for changing tickets...
...would be great for the kind of people who like to sink their teeth in a creative project,” Cohn says. “Of course, a possible new building would have been more attractive than a renovation, but it’s really a creative reconfiguring, they will have input…. It’s a chance to make a difference in the institution, and that’s really why people take jobs...
...stayed with me for a few days this term. She had fallen back into my life when I was mired in a thesis-induced haze, and she referred to the little cackles that drifted through the cracks of my bedroom wall when Toby, Mike and I buckled over the sink brushing our teeth (a sometimes ritual). That laughter was the only thing that pushed me through my senior thesis, my breakups and the bleary days that followed all-nighters at The Crimson. Even when we were all dispersed in far off computer labs dashing off final chapters, the e-mail...
Amusingly, Weaver claims that it would be a degradation for anyone to “sink to the challenge” of arguing against Gladden Pappin’s philosophical arguments, and then proceeds to argue against them himself. Perhaps Weaver feels justified in doing this because he believes himself, unlike Pappin, unbiased by any kind of “long-held personal views,” which he seems to think are wrong by virtue of their being long-held...
...were somebody to sink to the challenge of Pappin’s philosophical argument, just a question or two could raze his entire theoretical edifice. First, what happened to human happiness? Pappin argues that the only end of all human intimacy is a new human being. He’s wrong. A human being’s right to find happiness in this world is a sacred one, enshrined in our own Declaration of Independence...