Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern Air Lines, for instance, has doubled to five minutes since the promotional fares went into effect. In most cities, airline phone lines are jammed. Regular travelers who pay full fares are often unable to make bookings, and business people who have urgent appointments in other cities sometimes cannot confirm their reservations. Hence they may lose their seats to stand-by passengers paying only a fraction of the full fare. Says American Airlines Senior Vice President Robert Crandall: "If the public wants low fares, people will have to put up with delays...
...book? Army chaplains might some day need to confirm that, yes, Sikhs must never shave, that WACs who are strict Muslims must wear ankle-length garments or that Seventh-day Adventists may indeed require a vegetarian diet at the mess hall. The Department of the Army takes pride in its ecumenical new publication and notes that college teachers are requesting copies...
William Hoyt, director of the pension sub-department in the Office of Fiscal Services, puts it very simply: "If you have equally qualified candidates, you try to hire the minority." And, as a brief glance around offices in Holyoke Center and elsewhere will confirm, this practice is generally followed. In Hoyt's department, for example, two of the four workers are women, Minority employees, particularly black workers, are an integral part of every department in the University...
...reforms; others concluded that he was holding out for an offer from a less financially troubled school, perhaps even Harvard, if President Bok lives up to his previous pledge to spend less than ten years as president. Yet Rosovsky has never publicly commented on the Yale offer, either to confirm or deny it, and he is similarly tight-lipped about any speculation on his future plans. He speaks almost wistfully of the freedom and independence of academic life--"the life of a professor is wonderful, and I really appreciate it"--and yet he makes no indication that he is ready...
...avoid more serious shutdowns if the glacier retreats, the Coast Guard has been considering a number of alternatives. One proposal, to build a powerful radar station near Valdez to monitor icebergs, would require large amounts of money before geologists can confirm that the glacier is indeed retreating. Also, most icebergs calved by Columbia Glacier are "growlers" (20-ft.-wide slabs of ice that rise less than four feet above the water line) and somewhat larger "bergy bits" that are not easily picked up by radar. Another idea is to tow bergs out of the shipping lanes. But both solutions would...