Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These plans are only the latest salvos in the air-fare war. This month Pan Am, TWA and some foreign flag carriers will begin offering New York-London cut-rate fares that compete with the $236 round-trip Skytrain shuttle designed by Britain's upstart Laker Airways. Within the U.S., airlines have been announcing a profusion of cheap fares since last April; that was when American Airlines set off the bargain binge by offering advance-booked coast-to-coast flights at a "supersaver" round-trip fare of $231, which is 45% under the standard economy rate. Other carriers have...
...standard fixed fares with varying degrees of horror and resignation. The airlines are at last making money again: having lost by one estimate $94 million as recently as 1975, the major carriers could collectively earn a record $500 million this year, thanks partly to a post-recession upturn in air travel. But bargain plans will almost always have a "modestly negative" impact on earnings, insists Theodore Shen, airline analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. So why are the airlines slashing fares...
...only 894 sq. ft. in area, usually with two bedrooms, one bath, no garage and few built-in appliances. By 1971 the median dwelling had grown to 1,375 sq. ft. and last year to 1,590 sq. ft. Almost half of today's new homes have central air conditioning (up from little more than one-third in 1971), and two-thirds have two or more bathrooms (up from one-half in 1971). Says Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "There are more and more homes with four fireplaces, three or more baths, $10,000 kitchens...
Outside the great conference hall in Nairobi, 16 fountains sent up sparkling plumes of water, and black Mercedes limousines glistened in the bright East African sun. Inside, some 1,500 delegates from 110 nations sat in air-conditioned comfort. The splendid setting of the meeting could hardly have clashed more jarringly with its purpose. At the U.N.'s invitation, the representatives had gathered in the Kenyan capital last week to discuss and devise ways of containing what an increasing number of experts regard as a major environmental danger: the creeping, seemingly relentless spread of the earth's deserts...
...supposed to be discoursing on money. My publisher had flown me far from customary skies to talk about my book. But practicing on-the-air civility, I offered a few economic answers no more radical than Adam Smith's. We have a reasonably free society. People, including people who play first base, are privileged to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Personally, I prefer this to either monopoly sport or socialized sport. A lot I knew, said a radio listener in Dallas. The goddam greedy athletes were ruining the game...