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PARKER: Hub-and-spoke networks are not going away. But after some painful consolidation, we will probably have three very big airlines. The country likely can't sustain six low-cost carriers either. If 75% of passengers now travel on the Big Six airlines, I think that will be about 50% within a few years, and the low-fare airline share will rise to take the other half...
...population towards both the Americans and the Israelis. The perpetrators of the latest attack could be betting that the groundswell of hostility towards the U.S. and Israel among ordinary Egyptians enraged by events in Gaza and Iraq would make it more difficult for the Mubarak regime to sustain a crackdown...
Besides emotional prep and character study, the men underwent firemen’s training in order to sustain the physical demands of the role. Chapman spent his days in the academy and his nights running with the firefighters, which culminated in experiencing firsthand the horrors...
Well listen up, Bright Eyes: the excitement is going to wear off. As classes proceed you will learn that the happiness of these first weeks in college will not sustain through the semester. The stress, the strain, the lack of sex—it all creates a strange cycle of behavior that starts every morning and ends late into the night. The end result is exhaustion and an inability to get out of bed. Perhaps the inscription above the Gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno sums it up best: “Abandon all hope...
...percent minority, the effect of excluding whole Sunni towns from the vote will likely strengthen the hand of Sunni forces calling for a boycott. If the Sunnis as a bloc stay out of the election, that's a massive victory for the insurgency - and one that could sustain it for years to come. Sunni abstinence also dims prospects for a new Iraqi government winning wider Arab support. Iraq's Arab neighbors have urged the U.S. to do more to give the Sunnis a stake in the new Iraq, and Jordan's Crown Prince Abdullah - perhaps Washington's closest ally among...