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...quits, if she can afford it. I was lucky; I could go back to Radcliffe. Looking back I can pick out some of the worst incidents. One night, two guys came in, ordered two cups of coffee and twenty creams, and said. "We're on welfare; it's the cheapest nourishment we can get." They drank all the creams and built a little pyramid of empty creamer cups--with no tip underneath. Another night, I dropped a tray of Muffins on the floor, began to throw them all away, and found the manager scowling down at me, asking what...
...able to make independent decisions about the relative prices and reliability of various charter outfits, and see nothing to be gained by forcing them to deal only with HSA, HSA, though it fought tooth-and-nail for this monopoly right, and though its rates are higher than the cheapest available, claims it makes no profit from charter flights. Michael Ryan's Minderbinderesque explanation was that "We get a cash flow out of Charter Flights rather than revenue," which--even ignoring questions of prevailing short-term interest rates--strikes us as bullshit...
...passenger gets a book of coupons good for 10% to 50% discounts in restaurants and discotheques. Alitalia announced the best cost-per-mile bargain: a $199 round trip between New York and Rome. Icelandic Airlines, dubbed the "hiphop airline" by the hairy hordes who prefer it. rolled out the cheapest European youth fare: a $185 round trip between Aug. 1 and Sept. 10. and $165 the rest of the year...
...amount for his ticket. The round-trip New York-London economy fare in peak season is $555, and the price is just about the same for trips between London and Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. Some ways a traveler can get a better deal: CHARTER FLIGHTS offer the cheapest fares but also involve the most restrictions (although some are frequently ignored). Any nontravel organization at least two years old can charter a plane and sell the seats at cost to members of at least six months standing. Average tab: $230. Most members of teachers, lawyers, fraternal or many other...
...nine by year's end, mostly in Japan's mushrooming suburban areas - following Mao's precept to "take small and medium cities first, take big cities later." Defying pressure from Japan's protectionist agricultural bureaucrats, who have burdened him with red tape, Nakauchi imports the cheapest foreign food that he can find: cattle and onions from Australia, oranges and grapefruit from the U.S. He has turned his retail outlets into small department stores, selling not only food but Chinese pajamas, Korean shirts and, if the price is right, even Japanese-made goods. Last winter, when outraged...