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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...based airline has had only one moneymaking year in the past 15, and has been serving barely half the New England and Middle Atlantic cities for which it is certified. Citizens of some of those towns regard Northeast's presence as a mixed blessing at best and often complain about poor service. While Delta is endowed with both short feeder routes and long trunk routes that hook up with them, Northeast is weighed down with a collection of feeder runs that force passengers to take competitors' connecting flights. Therein lies one of the attractions for Delta. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Amazin'-Dixon Line | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

American readers will turn these pages with wry signs of recognition. Beyond the particulars of its message, what The Israelis keeps saying is this: A fellow utopia has arrived at that ironical point where success and lost innocence coincide; the dreamers begin to complain about the Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dream into Nightmare? | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...Round 3 in the fight could well make ecology an issue in international trade. The U.S. obviously has an interest in a clean environment in other countries simply because air and water pollution do not recognize international boundaries, and thus threaten progress made at home. Beyond that, businessmen legitimately complain that their products, already at a disadvantage on the international market because of high domestic costs, will become even more expensive as a result of the new pollution controls. The U.S. could start to exert pressure on other industrial nations to set stricter standards for their own automakers and steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What the Pollution Fight Will Cost Business | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

However, she, like many of the other 18 women, went on to complain that she quickly lost her initial enthusiasm for Leverett as a result of what seemed to be a maze of deadlines, quotas, applications and lotteries...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Housing Assignments Irk Leverett Men and Women | 5/20/1971 | See Source »

...American executives are enraged by what they regard as Japan's refusal to observe the rules of the game of world trade. Many American businessmen contend, with some justification, that the Japanese dump not only TV sets but also steel, textiles, float glass and radio tuners. U.S. industrialists also complain bitterly (and enviously) about the special help their Japanese rivals get from the Tokyo government: official blessings for cartels formed to win big foreign orders, lavish and extensive government-financed studies of which overseas markets might be easiest to crack, low-interest loans to exporters from the government-dominated banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japan, Inc.: Winning the Most Important Battle | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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