Word: expression
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...battles are bound to be fierce. Says Mark Daugherty, who follows the airline industry for the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm: "People Express is about to test its pain threshold. Cracking these markets is not going to be easy if American and Delta play rough." During the past several years Delta has successfully squelched United's attempts to expand its Atlanta business. "We have been developing this market for 41 years," says a Delta spokesman. Both American and Delta have already matched People's fares, although they have imposed certain restrictions. Moreover, they offer frequent-flyer bonus programs, while People...
...professor of political economy at Cornell, believes that the public is rooting for People. "The big carriers would like nothing more than to squash the little carriers," he says, "but the consumers have shown that they prefer competition. They want discount airlines to live." And as the name People Express implies, giving the people what they want is what the airline aims to keep doing. --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Joseph J. Kane/Atlanta and Thomas McCarroll/New York
Your informative article on radon [ENVIRONMENT, July 22] failed to express the panic, frustration and helplessness people feel when they discover their homes are unsafe because of radon contamination. The number of people affected by this gas is larger than the number of those involved in many natural disasters. Yet for radon victims, the Government provides no relief. Combatting radon by sealing walls and floors is not necessarily effective after a building is constructed. A better method is ventilating the soil around the home. Lester A. Slaback Jr. Gaithersburg...
...part they avoided both partisan rhetoric and talk of disarmament. Like the Hiroshima service, which used doves to make its point, many of the American commemoratives made use of simple symbols to underscore mankind's vulnerability to nuclear weapons. The displays were frail and mute, but they managed to express deep fears for the survival of the race, which the language of policy analysis has not defused in the 40 years since Hiroshima. And they raised, too, 40-year-old questions of whether the Bomb should have been used at all (see ESSAY). Among the memorials...
...especially for him, and they are his favorites. "Do you know what [Houston's] Nolan Ryan told me the other night? He said, 'I hope it's me pitching the day you're going for the record. You can look for the fast ball right down Broadway in the express lane.' I can just see him pulling up his straps for me now. 'Let's play a little hardball...