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Penny-pinching consumers and fierce price wars are bad news for the travel industry. Bad, that is, for everyone except the booming online travel giants. Consider the sharp rebound of such online players as Travelocity and Expedia. While they suffered in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, with bookings off as much as 70%0 in the weeks that followed, business has snapped back. "The speed with which those businesses bounced back surprised even the people most bullish about the sector," says Mitchell J. Rubin, a money manager at New York-based Baron Capital, an investor in online travel stocks.
The travel industry’s pain is often the online industry’s gain, as suppliers push more discounted airline seats and hotel rooms to win back customers. And many of those deals are available only online. At the same time, online agencies rely primarily on leisure travelers, where traffic has rebounded more quickly than on the busin
A. Online travel agents are indispensable to travelers.
B. Online travel services are likely to take wing.
C. The advent of online players will hurt consumers.
D. Consumers are denied the right to cancel bookings.
The Library of Congress is America’s national library. It has millions of books and other objects. It has newspapers, (1) publications as well as letters of (2) interest. It also has maps, photographs, art (3), movies, sound recordings and musical (4) . All together, it has more than 100 million objects. The Library of Congress is open to the public Monday through Saturday, except for public holidays. Anyone. may go there and read anything in the collection. But no one is (5) to take books out of the building. The Library of Congress was (6) in 1800. It started with eleven boxes of books in one room of the Capitol Building. By 1814, the collection had increased to about 3,000 books. They were all (7) that year when the Capitol was burned down during America’s war with Britain. To help re-build the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson’s collection included 7,000 books in seven languages. (8). Today, three buildings hold
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