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...Board volume totaled 449.35 million shares, the third busiest trading day ever but well below the record-setting level of Tuesday when 608 million shares changed hands...
...past few years, Shaffer says, calls have increased dramatically, typing up food service employees at their busiest time. So, Shaffer says he submitted a proposal for the hotline to his superiors, who agreed that the dial-a-menu's day had finally come...
...increasingly irritated because some of these flights are delayed up to 70% of the time. In April the U.S. Department of Transportation began prodding the airlines to adopt realistic schedules. The effort paid off last week when six carriers agreed to eliminate chronically late flights at four of the busiest airports in the nation...
...Persian Gulf resembled a floating parking lot. Scores of empty supertankers, flying the flags of Panama, Japan, Pakistan and many other countries, lay at anchor last week in the Gulf of Oman, as did half a dozen U.S. warships. A menacing cluster of mines had brought the world's busiest oil traffic to a sudden and embarrassing halt. One after another, the explosives bobbed into sight. By week's end at least five had been spotted, and every tiny fishing boat that sailed by was carefully watched in case it tried to plant more of the dangerous devices...
...become the bane of U.S. travelers. During the first five months of this year, consumer complaints to the Transportation Department about poor airline service reached 9,812, an 81% increase over the same period last year. The number of flight delays of 15 minutes or more at the 22 busiest U.S. airports, as compiled by the FAA, rose by 13% in the first three months of 1987 compared with the first quarter of last year. Says Nozomu Kaneda, of Kingston, N.Y., an IBM technician who flies often: "Delays occur so frequently that I feel lucky whenever one lasts less than...