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...back in Washington seeking a further 2% rise. More rate-boost requests are almost certain. Eastern Chief Frank Borman figures that fares will have to go up at least another 6% this year "to get us back toward a reasonable 12% return on investment." The lines also expect to fatten revenues by paring back on their bewildering plethora of discount fares this year; in 1975 35% of all scheduled airline passengers in the U.S. traveled on discount tickets...
Tippling in the ranks of his army is giving Uganda President Idi Amin Dada a headache. "Soldiers who drink their heads off" and "fatten beyond efficiency" should be tossed out of the service, Big Daddy declared at a parade. The 300-lb. field marshal then adjourned to the officers' mess, where he quaffed his favorite pick-me-up - a cold Coke...
...Brown game always represented nothing more than a tune-up for Yale. In the past it was a game for the stars to fatten up their stats and for the bench warmers to get their big chance...
...forcing consumers and industry to burn less petroleum. The President's latest plan-to lift the controls over a period of 39 months, with the major impact coming after the November 1976 elections-was voted down in July. Many Democrats have deep ideological objections to price rises that fatten oil-company profits. At the same time, the Democrats have no agreed strategy for forcing energy conservation and curtailing imports. Alternative ideas -rationing, import quotas, stiff taxes on energy usage-cannot survive even a congressional vote, let alone a veto...
...Interstate Commerce Commission often require vans to return from their destinations empty, rather than let them pick up an available load. The National Commission on Productivity estimates that elimination of these rules could save $250 million per year. Though some of these and other potential savings might go to fatten stores' profits, chances are that because the supermarket business is hotly competitive, a large share would be passed on to consumers...