Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups. A series of trains and buses are departing from all over the East and Midwest. And former Harvard sports information director David Matthews says a late spring conversation with Harvard coach Joe Restic gave him the idea to organize the Luxury Coach Express, a $100 per person roundtrip bus ride with an open bar, special lunches, a tape of interviews with famous Harvard-Yale game greats and a limited edition Cross pen. Proceeds go the Friends of Harvard Football and Yale's equivalent, the Y association...
...Harvard 50th Reunion class is similarly organizing The Train to The Game, which unabashedly offers. "Traveling musicians, Harvard-Yale programs at cost, bus service to and from the Yale bowl entrance, an absolutely delicious gourmet box brunch to include fruit and cheese, pate Maison, chicken breast Parisenne, Waldorf salad. French bread and petits fours, roundtrip surprises (some planned, some unplanned), return trip snack of clam chowder and croissant sandwiches, unsurpassed camaraderie...
Greyhound has also been hurt by deregulation of the airlines. Upstart short-haul carriers are now offering flights that are even cheaper than bus travel. While Greyhound charges $56.15 for a journey between Newark and Norfolk, for instance, a People Express ticket is just $23. Says Greyhound Spokeswoman Beth Meyer: "There was a time when that was one of our most heavily traveled routes. Now we've just about abandoned...
Greyhound over local routes. Almost anyone with $50,000 to buy a used bus can go into business and cut fares to subsistence levels...
Greyhound Chairman John Teets has been urgently trying to cut overhead. In a well-publicized statement last month, he warned, "We have the highest-paid employees in the bus transportation business. We need-no, we must have-parity with other carriers." Greyhound claims its drivers make an average of $27,437 plus $8,037 in benefits, compared with $22,985 and $5,600 in benefits for drivers at the company's major competitors...