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Today "the whole industry is on the brink of consolidation," says Kevin Murphy, an airline analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. "Clearly we're going to go from six major carriers to three, and that will be the story of 2001." If that forecast proves accurate, weary travelers had better enjoy today's service, because the prospects for improvement aren't getting any better...
...city in the past 10 years, while Shanghai's gross domestic product has grown at an average of 10% a year, compared with 3.7% average growth for Hong Kong. "Hong Kong was never really a gateway to China; it was a window," says Andy Xie, executive director of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong. "But why would you want to go through the window when the door is wide open...
...could act as the economic engine for the world, intervening to minimize the damage in the Asian financial crises of 1997 and the Russian debt shock of 1998. But as faster communication brings the world closer together, "it raises the risk of a globalized synchronized recession," says Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter chief global economist Stephen Roach. "We're already seeing that unfold as we speak...
...vital center of American culture. Burns is relentless on the subject. He has spoken loudly and often about how racism is the thread that binds Jazz together with his previous large-scale work. He and his onscreen docents, like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the critics Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch, easily weave the story of the music not only together with history but also with conventional cultural tradition. Mozart and Shakespeare are cited as cultural touchstones for the giants of jazz; the narration refers to Ellington as "America's greatest composer," an accolade that may well be deserved but which...
Quine led the second golden age of the Harvard philosophy department along with John Rawls, the political theorist, and philosophers Stanley Cavell and Hillary Putnam, according to Warren Goldfarb, Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic. (During the first golden age, at the turn of the century, the department was led by Henry James, Josiah Royce and George Santayana...