Word: travel
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Since then, meeting schedules have been altered and their venue changed from Stuttgart to New York in order to reduce travel stress for both sides. The corporate-communications department, which has lost top staff members to cross-cultural tension (remember the business cards?) and job competition, last month hired an outside facilitator to help the communicators communicate with one another. "I never thought much of outside consultants," admits Roland Klein, a senior vice president for corporate communications. "But this seemed to work very well...
Frustrated flyers who insist that air travel is more costly, crowded and chaotic than ever won a powerful ally last week: the U.S. Justice Department. In an antitrust suit that stunned major U.S. carriers, Justice accused No. 2, American Airlines, of driving three small discount rivals out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Trustbusters said American flooded routes served by upstarts Vanguard, Sun Jet and Western Pacific with its own new flights and illegally slashed fares below the cost of providing the seats--a practice known as predatory pricing. American, which carries 77% of all passengers who fly nonstop from...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED Doris Haddock Dec. 31, 1998 MODE Walking (she's 89) EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL 10 miles a day for 306 days THE CAUSE? Campaign-finance reform PREPARATION Walked 10 miles a day carrying...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Bob Greene April 15, 1999 [MODE] Bicycle [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 68 miles a day for 49 days [THE CAUSE? His new book PREPARATION] Made a 1,200-mile bike trip...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Kurt Osburn April 13, 1999 [MODE] Doing a wheelie on a bike [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 50 miles a day for 70 days [THE CAUSE? Hepatitis C (and to break his 11-hr. record for longest wheelie) PREPARATION] Put an extra-large seat on his BMX bike...