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...music is a most glaring problem. The sound system consists of a woman who sits at the scorer's table and holds a microphone against an archaic, cumbersome boom box. We would not be surprised if it were stolen from an '80s break-dancing flick...
...doubting Thomases need only look at the atrocious uniforms of the mid-80s Houston Astros. How anyone could root for those shirts is beyond...
...fascinated by the possibility of digging into such secret government files. At least 130 members of his family were killed by the German machine in a single day. "They can't bring those people back," he says, "but they can at least give back to my mother, in her 80s, her wealth, her history and her standing." Singer asked his boss at the World Jewish Congress in New York for permission to begin an investigation of the Swiss accounts and got the go-ahead...
...Fewer Nonstops. The hub-and-spoke system was created in the late 1970s and early '80s to create "fortress hubs" and full planes. For passengers, this means fewer nonstop flights, reduced meals and higher fares. The strategy faltered when low-fare carriers landed in the hubs and ticket prices dropped exponentially. But the ValuJet tragedy has devastated the low-cost carriers. When ValuJet recently announced plans to end service between Mobile, Alabama, and Atlanta (a Delta fortress hub), the lowest available fare on Delta shot up overnight from...
...CalPERS and others are getting drunk with power--as did brash dealmakers in the power seats of the '80s. Consider this year's losers list, announced last week. Sure, it has some real dogs, such as struggling Apple Computers Inc. and Stride Rite, a worn-out shoe company. But CalPERS also stepped on sneaker company Reebok. This is odd, given that Reebok's stock has doubled in 10 months and beaten the market averages handily in the past year. That's not all: Reebok shares have risen an average annual 29% since the bull market began in October 1990--outdistancing...