American's only other path to profitable growth is adding "point-to-point" flights between cities where it doesn't maintain hubs.

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American's only other path to profitable growth is adding "point-to-point" flights between cities where it doesn't have hubs.

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This point-based system may allow the U.S. to put legal immigrants on a path to citizenship by issuing green cards to legal immigrants based on criteria such as number of years present in the U.S., level of education, employment potential, etc.

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We will most likely see international trade decline further until China embarks upon the path to becoming a service and consumption-based economy at which point the West will begin to export in a big way.

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However, according to the report, distribution is far and away the most important factor and that should be comforting to publishers because, at this point, established publishers are the only reliable path into bricks-and-mortar bookstores, where a large proportion of sales are still made.

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