Word: boostings
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With the ink barely dry on the 1977 brochures, the outlook for spring/summer air travel is becoming clear. Flying is in for a big boost. One major reason: the new ticketing arrangement called Advance Booking Charters, which enables passengers to get low-cost round-trip air transportation with fewer restrictions than on any of the previous charter plans. Authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board last October, ABCs are now being pushed aggressively by both scheduled and nonscheduled airlines, notably by Britain's ebullient charter operator Freddie Laker...
Within hours management knuckled under and restored the pay boost. "Company" Spokesman Al Zack said it was all a mistake: the AFL-CIO's payroll department had not realized that the expired contracts required that all provisions, including the cost of living raises, be extended until a new agreement was initialed. Not all of the workers believed that explanation. Said one: "They wanted to kill the cost of living clause, in effect giving...
Carter, however, is an affectionado of Putt-Putt golf, a souped-up version of miniature golf popular down South. David Lloyd, president of Putt-Putt Golf Courses of America, was recently quoted as saying, "Mr. Carter is a great friend of Putt-Putt. It will be a wonderful boost to have our game played by the President of the United States...
Despite these drawbacks, public works can give a boost to financially strapped areas simply by an injection of much needed capital. That is, if Congress can avoid treating-or mistreating -the program as pork-barrel politics. When Congress approved the $2 billion public works appropriation, it required that 30% of the money go to communities with unemployment rates below the national average. Says one of the Senate Public Works Committee staffers who drafted the legislation: "It was a political necessity. You can't have all the money going to Newark. The Congressman from Scarsdale wants a cut too." Outgoing...
...such an outbreak occurred, the swine flu program--and its government and industry apologists--would have to shoulder much of the blame. A planned initiative to boost immunization levels was set aside this year, as funds, personnel and attention were diverted to the swine flu program. In addition, many people have justifiably grown more skeptical of the wisdom of the vaccine establishment. If this skepticism leads them to shun all vaccines, the swine flu disaster will have been far more tragic than laughable.CrimsonLaura J. LevineSwine flu Shots: Bogus or Legitimate...