Travel companies increasingly run cross-promotions, so it can be handy to have mile and point totals for all of your programs on hand.

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The point of all of this is that while politicians and the media frequently look askance at great wealth on the way to compassionate programs meant to redistribute it, they rarely acknowledge how much work is required to get to that point.

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