Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-five airlines have started up in the past seven years, and eight more are awaiting clearance from the Department of Transportation. They sport such names as Frontier, ValuJet, Air 21, Vanguard, Nations Air, KIWI and Western Pacific, and they promise that the competition is going to be different this time. They have staked their survival on two basic strategies. First, fly into a place, like Fresno, California, that the major carriers have largely abandoned. Second, don't pick the big guys' pockets; use low-fare, no-frills flights to expand the market. The idea isn't to steal market...
Major League Soccer, the latest attempt to bring the world's most popular sport to the U.S., needs all the help it can get. But one team has already scored: the Los Angeles Galaxy (so many sports, so few good names) has its first star, ANDREW SHUE. The Melrose Place naive turned conniver has signed a one-year deal to play midfield. "Two years ago, I let it be known I was interested in playing in a pro league," says Shue. "I've been training for the past six months." This isn't his first pro soccer gig; he played...
Which is exactly why it should not be torn down. Baseball is a sport whose charm lies in its traditions, good or bad. Those kids chasing down those foul balls will cherish the memory of watching a good ole' fashioned butt-whipping...
...have lingering doubts about the price they have paid. Alabama pledged property-tax relief and other giveaways worth some $250 million--or more than $160,000 per job--to persuade Mercedes-Benz to locate in the town of Vance (pop. 400) a $520 million plant that will begin building sport-utility vehicles next year. A new crop of state leaders declare that their predecessors could have driven a harder bargain...
JAMES STEWART'S BOOK BLOOD SPORT should be required reading for every U.S. citizen of voting age [Book Excerpt, March 18]. It reveals an extremely disturbing pattern of deceit, dishonesty and use of power for personal gain by the Clintons. The moral decadence in America has spread as high as the White House. RICHARD R. KURTZ Angier, North Carolina Via E-mail...