Word: mile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems this particular set of checks came from Joey's Pan Am-affiliated MasterCard. It's one of the many airline-affiliated Visas or MasterCards that give you a frequent-flyer mile free for every dollar you charge, even if you pay your balance in full within the grace period. To a frequent-flyer junkie, these cards are irresistible...
Cost to Joey: nothing. Cost to MasterCard: 10,000 frequent-flyer miles. (The bank that issues Joey's MasterCard pays Pan Am a penny or so for each mile awarded -- about $100 in this case.) Lessons for us: Resist those tempting blank checks your credit-card company sometimes sends (unless you're really looking for a way to borrow money at 19.8%). Switch to a credit card that offers frequent-flyer miles. (If you're charging things, you might as well get a free trip once in a while.) Don't mess with my pal Joey...
...train, popularly known as "The Burro" because it stops at almost every station along the 900-mile route, is patronized almost entirely by poor Mexicans. It left Mazatlan at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, and had gone about 250 miles when the accident occurred at about 4 a.m. Police said they did not know how fast the train was going at the time...
...made trouble-free stops in Thailand and Saudi Arabia. Approaching Tripoli's airport in a dense morning fog, the pilot decided to land, even though only an hour earlier an arriving Soviet Aeroflot jet had prudently detoured to Malta. The KAL plane missed the runway by more than a mile, cartwheeled and slammed into two cars and two farmhouses...
...blond-haired good looks, on-camera charisma and a journalistic resume that stretches from Three Mile Island to 60 Minutes. No wonder Sawyer has made it to the top. But her skillful mix of style and substance raises questions about the growing impact of stars in TV news. Are these high-paid personalities worth the money? More important, do they deserve our trust...