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...CAB's Kahn pares those fares and reshapes the airlines
Soon after taking office, Kahn shucked off the CAB's cautious approach to granting fare cuts and told airline chiefs that he would welcome applications for discounts. The more aggressive lines, especially American and United, quickly reduced fares to fill unoccupied seats, and competitors were somewhat reluctantly forced to follow their lead. Last month the CAB voted to allow airlines to cut fares as much as 50% without even checking with the agency. This move could hurt some lines that may need to show dominant positions on important routes in order to get financing for fleet buildups...
...written almost obsessively about the Holocaust; he has a kind of morally proprietary passion about it. He is a keeper of the flame, a visionary who sees the past as intensely as a prophet sees the future. Many more Americans seemed to agree with Mayer Fruchter, a New York cab driver who was imprisoned at Buchenwald at the same time as Wiesel. "He is wrong," Fruchter insisted after last week's series about a German Jewish family and the Final Solution. "I mean, he is right; it can't be shown. But it's better to show...
...least, it seems like I spent the entire spring vacation in a bus, car, train, cab or other vehicle of transportation. Of course, there are compensating advantages to mass transit--you meet some, ah, let us say, interesting people...
...other trips--from N.J. to Manhattan, cab rides across the City, subways to and from Brooklyn (my ancestral home), a bus ride to yet another close friend, this one in Washington, the bus ride back to New York--passed without major incident. Well, almost. I had planned to take an early bus back from Washington on Sunday morning, meeting one of my Harvard friends at Port Authority (this time fastidiously avoiding all religious freaks and bums and whatevers), there to get on a Boston-bound bus after lunch to return to school...