"I think it was to save the government and the airline industry from crushing liability"

Julia, everything starts somewhere, and my instinct tells me that what you said above is the reason we will (I think) see the pendulum move the direction that 9/11 nudged it, but it will take a long time, perhaps leading some to assume there is no pendulum movement. It's anybody's guess, though.

-- BarbPitman - 20 Apr 2008