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...initiatives, including customers-first.org a new website to help passengers get information on exactly what to expect if problems should arise. The airline lobby also called on the Bush Administration to speed up modernization of the air-traffic-control system. But that volley might not be enough: Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, for example, stands ready to reintroduce legislation on the Hill that would require airlines to improve customer service or face sanctions. "We're not calling for a constitutional right to fluffy pillows," says Wyden. "But we do want timely and accurate information about what to expect from airlines...
...Wyden (D-Ore.) put it Monday, "What we have here is a failure to communicate, communicate honestly about scheduling. A failure to communicate honestly about delays and cancellations; a failure to communicate honestly about bumping passengers from flights...
...fill of oil company mergers. The commission spent good portions of 1998 and 1999 wrangling over whether to approve the $81 billion Exxon-Mobil merger, and have since indicated that the competitive playing field of gasoline vendors can't stand to be condensed anymore. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who petitioned the FTC to block the BP Amoco-Arco deal, told regulators the transaction would lead to other "copycat" mergers. If the folks at BP Amoco can find solace in anything, it might be that it's starting a new trend - this was the first time the had FTC blocked...
...site's debut last week at www.ronsangels.com outraged fertility experts and ethicists, who accused Harris of everything from running a soft-core eBay to the Hitlerian crime of eugenics. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who wrote the 1992 federal law regulating fertility clinics, called the operation "crass commercialism." Some suggested that Harris might be more interested in selling ads on a hot website than in selling eggs--or that the whole thing might even be a hoax...
...week that would essentially outlaw assisted suicides. The so-called Pain Relief Promotion Act sounds hilariously uncontroversial, but in fact it would send doctors to jail for life for prescribing controlled substances with the intent of hastening death. The bill now goes to the entire House. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has promised a filibuster in the Senate; the President has taken no stand...