Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet the recent salary moderation has been far from uniform, and some yawning disparities have appeared. Sibson & Co., a New Jersey management consultant firm, calculates that the compensation of top business executives has increased by 14.8% this year with the help of salary bonuses often reaching 20%. Among wage earners...
Carter's latest episode of rhetorical overkill may have won him some election campaign points, coming when oil companies have been announcing unexpectedly high profits. Last week, following reports by other major oil companies of large third-quarter profit boosts, including Exxon's 118% rise to a record...
On balance, deregulation has led to improved service. Scheduled carriers have added flights at more than 100 cities, and 35 carriers began serving 231 routes that had not previously been flown by lines that had permission to use them. In addition, 32 carriers have taken advantage of a rule that...
The big gainers have been hub cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and New York and recreation meccas like Hawaii and Florida. But there have been losers too. Some 60 cities have been stripped of all scheduled airline service. In Chattanooga, which lost much of its service when United...
The increased competition brought on by deregulation has cut average air travel costs. Traffic is up by 13.5% for the first nine months of this year, on top of a 17% increase in 1978, and about half of all air travelers now pay discount fares. The flood of flights has...