Word: fares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline fares are behaving like a jetliner climbing out of a tailspin. After tumbling some 12% since 1981, the cost of flying has risen by about 10% in the past three years and by around 6% so far this year, even though passenger traffic has been flat. The price hikes have stirred the suspicion of the Justice Department, which launched an antitrust investigation into possible collusion among the nation's major airlines. The Justice probe is seeking to determine whether the fare hikes were economically justified or the airlines acted in concert to raise prices...
...investigation was triggered by the announcement on Sept. 18 of an American Airlines fare increase. Within several days, eight other carriers, including United and TWA, followed suit. The airlines deny the possibility of collusion, insisting that fare decisions are made independently. But critics charge that the carriers use their sophisticated computerized reservation systems to signal pricing intentions to rivals...
...even that information would not be an exact indicator of how well Harvard students would fare in the spring admissions game. Rakoff said...
Other analysts are less pessimistic. After all, the quality of network newscasts is still higher than the crime-and-accident-heavy fare on most local stations. Instead of trying to make the day's headlines interesting to viewers who may already have seen them twice, some critics suggest that the networks offer more in-depth analysis. Says Herford: "Maybe Nightline is the model for the future evening newscast. Maybe the networks should tackle the one or two most important issues every day during that half hour...
...gastronomical theory can explain the enduring appeal of the Thanksgiving dinner. The traditional menu is largely a 19th-century re-creation of Pilgrim and Indian fare, and none of these groups normally claim membership in the world's great culinary traditions. But miraculously the meal remains a monument to pre-microwave American cooking. Not even McDonald's has had the audacity to create McTurkey, nor does Domino's deliver cranberry pizza. So too are the food faddists outflanked, as sun-dried tomatoes, imported chevre and oat-bran anything give way to overstuffed lassitude...