Mindful of anti-trust concerns, Northwest says that it would be a passive investor in Midwest and would not exercise any management control.However it turns out, the fight for Midwest underlines the obstacles to consolidation in America's aviation industry, despite its old millstone, excess capacity.
The open kitchen, which remains a staple of diner design, served as an immediate display of cleanliness and a method of appeasing attendees that despite its old nickname, "greasy spoon," the diner itself wasn't cheap.
Add to this the novel's focus on an engulfing and possibly toxic friendship between two women — Elena Ferrante territory — and "Tangerine," despite its old-fashioned aspects, seems very much on trend.
Despite its name, Old Louisville was actually built as a suburb of Louisville starting in the 1870s, nearly a century after Louisville was founded.
DODGE DAKOTA AND FORD RANGER: Ford's ancient but successful compact pickup (despite its decades-old frame, it outsold the Taurus in September) perishes because it cannot meet coming government standards without expensive updates.
Then in 2013 came SubCulture, also run as a business, which has struggled financially despite besting its older competitor in its warm acoustics and living-room-style intimacy.
When the Pakistani government moved to eradicate Bangla from official use, despite its centuries-old history, and replace it with Urdu, Dhaka University students staged a peaceful protest on Feb.
Here is an adventure in steel and concrete, a building - despite its age-old purpose - like no other.
Despite its decades-old embargo against Cuba, the United States has long been the largest foreign supplier of food to the island.
Certainly, Cairngorm's Trade Winds, despite its boring, old-fashioned pump-clip, was alive with the advertised, "citrus, wheat, elderflower" flavours.
Despite its deceptively old-fashioned name, the North Coast Brewing Company, opened in 1988, was named by the Beverage Testing Institute as "one of the 10 best breweries in the world".
