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Even if the council doesn't double the spending limit next year, the least that can be done is to allow the presidential and vice-presidential candidates to exhaust their war chests separately. Currently, when candidates join a ticket, the expenditures of the joint campaign is deducted from budgets of both candidates, essentially penalizing a candidate for joining a ticket...
Simple logic says the mergers will jack up ticket prices. American and TWA compete head to head on Caribbean routes, for instance, yet TWA has long relied on hefty discounts to fill its seats. American, on the other hand, has long employed "yield management"--software that continuously analyzes and adjusts ticket prices to maximize revenue per seat. Donald Carty, chief executive of American, calls TWA's broad discounts a "failing business model." American does not think it prudent to give money away. Says Carty: "Consumers should never expect those [prices] every...
...Justice Department's merger review could come at an awkward time for American, which is preparing to defend itself in a major predatory-pricing trial. American is battling a 1999 Justice complaint accusing it of driving smaller rivals out of its Dallas-Fort Worth hub by illegally slashing ticket prices and saturating the market with new fights...
George W. Bush's Inauguration is Washington's hottest ticket, and scoring invites to various shindigs is not easy. We asked some social savants how those left off the guest list can crash the party...
SCOUT MASTER That stack of business cards waiting to be entered into your address book is not getting any smaller--and you're not getting any younger. Scout, a free service from Ants.com could be your ticket out of data-entry hell. Sign up, and when you enter another Scout member's e-mail address into your Outlook database, her contact information (or whatever part of it she's willing to share) is automatically filled in. Scout will update contact information continuously--no more mass e-mails for address changes. The software is still in its early phases, though...