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...rule change, which could go into effect by next summer, would be a boon to Seattle-based Boeing and Airbus Industrie, the West European aircraft consortium. Boeing has a new 767 twin-engine airliner with enough range to cross the Atlantic, and Airbus is building a similar plane called the A310-300. Many transatlantic airlines will probably be eager to buy and fly twin-engine jets because they burn about 50% less fuel than three and four- engine models of comparable size...
...many bards, and just one regal boon...
...such talk as "political demagoguery." Last week the non-partisan and widely respected Congressional Budget Office published a report that seemed to concede the argument to the Democrats. Its conclusion: Reaganomics, with its deep personal income tax cuts and reductions in spending on social programs, has been a boon to the nation's wealthy families and has hurt those that were already poor...
...Thayer's business career may prove to be more a burden than a boon...
...theater and arena operators, however, the advent of computerized ticketing has been a boon. In a 1980 survey taken for the League of New York Theaters and Producers, 39% of the respondents said that charge-by-phone services made them more likely to attend a Broadway show. And attendance at rock concerts received an undoubted boost from the proliferation of Ticketron outlets during the 1970s. Says Ticketmaster Chairman Fred Rosen: "Our goal is to make ticket buying as convenient as possible. And the telephone is the ultimate convenience...