Word: fared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What makes a network so vital to the airlines is its ability to arrange a dizzying permutation of planes, routes and available seats in the most profitable configuration possible. Each day, 600,000 fares change in the airline industry, which high-speed computers can constantly update to help an airline allocate seats. Without the computer systems, for example, airline managers might fill planes with passengers flying free on frequent-flyer coupons when at least some seats could be sold to business travelers at full fare...
...rapid consolidation in the airline industry has created consumer benefits as well as disadvantages. The easing of the fare wars has enabled major airlines to make a profit, which in turn has fostered better service. The Department of Transportation's latest monthly report on airline performance indicates that fewer consumers are writing to the Government to gripe about problems like lost or damaged baggage. Only 933 complaints were registered last month, down from 2,100 a year earlier...
...ratio of the $25-a-pop blackjack table? They have come at the invitation of their favorite financial- newsletter editors, who are still trying to come back from the 1987 crash and have offered this investment seminar as a subscription-renewal bonus ("A $500 retail value! Act now! Air fare and hotel not included"). They are here because they are eager students of the market, even if temporarily absent from it, and they are determined to figure the whole thing out, or find somebody else who can figure it out for them. The newsletter gurus look to be their best...
...acre Hyde Park, N.Y., campus of the Culinary Institute of America, known in food circles as "the other C.I.A.," the school runs four different restaurants. The 1,850 students learn regional U.S. dishes for the American Bounty Kitchen, Italian fare for the Caterina de Medici restaurant and health- conscious dinners for St. Andrew's Cafe...
...publishing this advertisement, we are complicitous. We are forced to acknowledge that for every $29 fare that Eastern sells to our readership, we are contributing $29 to Frank Lorenzo's attempts to bust Eastern's machinist union--which for two grueling months has been on strike, on the picket lines, and off the pay roll...