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...reason is price. If the train is going to compete with ferries, planes and automobiles, it should be in some sense better: faster, more convenient, tasty food. Or at least cheaper. But once I realized that for the price of my standing room only train ticket I could have flown back and forth from New York to Washington not once, but twice, I got a bit peeved. Recently, I was on my way to Wilmington, Delaware to meet my parents. I had painstakingly concocted a route by which I could totally bypass Amtrak: New Jersey Transit to Trenton, then switch...
...through the legs and nearly besting goalkeeper Kahn. In all likelihood, German team Bayer Leverkusen, which owns Donovan's contract, just might want him back from MLS's San Jose Earthquakes. Indeed, the national team's success may hurt MLS: The sprightly Beasley may have also punched his ticket to Europe, and Mathis has stirred interest...
...range. A Business Travel Council survey of 184 groups that, combined, spend $2.9 billion a year on travel revealed in April that business travel is down 20% this year. Even worse, B.T.C. chairman Kevin Mitchell notes that 60% of the companies plan to cut further. Frustrated by ticket prices that skyrocketed 74% between 1996 and 2000, businesspeople are eliminating nonessential trips, hunting for last-minute cheap fares online, videoconferencing, or taking trains, private planes and even buses. "Some of these reductions are meant to be permanent," warns Mitchell...
...Orbitz claim they formed the website to reduce the high cost of booking air travel through traditional computer reservation systems, and they recently eliminated commissions to travel agents. A Travelocity spokesman points out, however, that Orbitz's owner airlines are paying the website a fee of about $14 a ticket--roughly twice as much as Travelocity charges. "Orbitz's special provisions have made the playing field for airline tickets severely uneven," says Antonella Pianalto, head of the Interactive Travel Services Association. Orbitz counters that other websites favor certain carriers by charging them lower fees...
...risk people's ire and make yourself vulnerable. Exercising leadership can get you into a lot of trouble." The problem isn't just change; it's fear of loss. Says Heifetz: "People love change when they know it's a good thing. Nobody gives back the winning lottery ticket...