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...sharp executive who transformed his previous employer, America West, into the first successful low-fare hub-and-spoke carrier. A team player, Parker passed up a bonus this March. The merger of America West and US Airways, which he oversaw, has been a success. US Airways used to spend 40% of its revenue on labor; now that figure is 17%, according to AirlineForecasts. Significant cost cutting and dropping unprofitable routes have helped the merged America West--US Airways company trim business fares...
...informed enough to make the decision, while others fear that a vague statement of student sentiment will open the floodgates to referenda on other issues in the future. Students do not understand the cost implications of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, they argue, and besides, they say, Harvard could spend money more effectively on energy research...
...protestations to the contrary, this is another step along the disturbing path toward reducing Harvard’s liberal arts education to a pre-professional education and thus transforming Harvard’s undergraduates from scholars into consumers. A Harvard College education is an invaluable and irretrievable opportunity to spend four years devoted to the life of the mind; this time of primarily non-instrumentalized intellectual pursuit provides, as a matter of course, the knowledge, understanding, and analytical ability needed for long-term success in life beyond Harvard and as a citizen (those very few courses actually prerequisite to study...
...think it’s very simple, actually. Rather than spend $60 on bus fare, sleep on the floor of some dining hall, and eat half-cooked hot dogs at an alcohol-free tailgate, they can actually have fun at a football game in their hometown and then go home for Thanksgiving after classes end on Friday. Note that fun does not equal getting obnoxiously drunk, but rather not being forced to deal with beverage authorization teams, long lines, and the Boston Police Department (BPD). The calculus involved is not complicated, and, while I certainly plan on going...
...Supermarkets, in fact, are still a rarity in India. About 97% of the estimated $200 billion Indians spend shopping every year goes to 12 million mom-and-pop stores around the country. Some of these shops cram a surprising array of foods into their limited shelf space, and a small but growing number have imported food - taco shells, olives, cheeses. But very few of them have aisles down which you can push a shopping cart, and almost none of them are air conditioned or use electronic checkouts...