Ed Perkins
Ed Perkins
Edwin Arend Perkins, FRS FRSCis a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007. He won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize...
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Each airline that's involved sets the prices and some of these differences can be huge.
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You can do something in about every price range. You can buy a $10,000 cruise all the way down to a $10 gadget in a travel store.
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The feeling there is that you're getting at least some kind of consensus.
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If one of the big guys goes out, it's going to throw a tremendous load on all the others, and it means seats are going to be very difficult to get.
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It kind of reminded us of last year. And that's a place we definitely didn't want to go to again.
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That's a question of personal lifestyle. Lots of people don't like carrying more than $50 or $100. Other people aren't comfortable unless they have $300 or $400.
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We got off to a fast start and we wanted that on a cold night. We let them come back into the game, but then we toughened up in the second half. We didn't worry too much about (the fumbles). That's gonna happen on a night like this.
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Brian's progressed a lot from last year. He's come a long way and he's running the ball now.
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The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.
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As far as the operation of the airline is concerned, almost nothing changes. People keep buying tickets, the airline flights operate as usual, and travelers would be hard-put to know that the bankruptcy ever happened.
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This is important information that consumers should know before they put their money down on a ticket.
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CDW is priced at gouge levels -- three, four or five times what it ought to be, based on real risk. Most people are better off using some better system to cover themselves.
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People will spend two hours looking around London or Paris to save $2 on exchange costs. That's really crazy.
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Since labor action falls into the same category as 'Act of God' and 'Act of War,' the carriers have no legal obligation to do anything for the consumer,