Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Following similar three-class plans put in earlier by Continental Airlines and British Caledonian, these airlines will maintain their existing first-class sections but separate the rest of the cabin into two areas: one for full-fare coach passengers, the other in the rear, for the cut-rate folk...
EASIER CHECK-INS. To cut the lines at the check-in counters, American and TWA are issuing advance boarding passes for return flights. These allow a traveler who has only carry-on luggage to go directly to the boarding gate to catch a flight home...
...lines do not want to streamline fares just for the sake of convenience. Overall, the cheaper fares have cut average ticket prices about 5% this year, while operating costs are rising 13% or 14% annually. The airlines' overall profit margin is still only 4.3%, which is well below the 5.3% average for all U.S. industry. They must earn at least as much next year as they will in 1978 in order to finance the new planes that they will need in the 1980s. Increasing fares, the most obvious answer, could prove politically difficult. So, to hold their 1979 earnings...
...Meanwhile, the slow pace of the UPC revolution has led to quick check-outs by several firms that had hoped to capture a share of the supermarket automation field. After investing heavily in research and marketing studies, General Electric, RCA, Singer, Bunker Ramo and Pitney-Bowes all chose to cut their losses and quit. Now even Sperry Rand, which had bought out RCA's licenses, has withdrawn...
...unions, with assent from the News and the Times, to get negotiations moving when they seemed stalled. Murdoch saw Kheel less as an observer than an active arbiter, who might dictate terms inimical to the Post. "They put him out in front to take all the heat, then they cut him down from behind with Kheel," says a source close to Murdoch. "He wasn't going to do their dirty work." Feeling thus betrayed by his fellow publishers, Murdoch in turn betrayed them. That stratagem irked Kheel. Said he: "In union parlance, Murdoch is scabbing. He's looking...