Word: fixed
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...with the prospect of a diminished future, travel agents are fighting back in the courts. In what could be the start of a flood of challenges, Travel Network Ltd., a New Jersey firm that franchises 350 agencies around the world, last week sued six airlines for allegedly conspiring to fix commissions at artificially low levels. Particularly hard hit will be agencies that rely on business-travel packages, that cost more than $500 apiece for the bulk of their revenues-as compared with agencies that specialize in budget-vacation trips. "The airlines are willing to pay you your regular 10% commission...
...times and points to corrective steps now in the works, such as changing the 11-day rule in the wetlands definition. But environmentalists contend that reform is not what's on Republicans' minds. Says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope: "The agenda they have set is not to fix these laws but to weaken them...
...When one side packs a meeting, it's OK to fix that," said George S. Wang '95, who is a Crimson editor. "The [original] vote was a misrepresentation of the house as a whole...
Referring to different studies in which they had been involved, Huddle and Fix differed on whether immigration in the U.S. results in an economic surplus or deficit...
...Fix said that he had calculated a yearlynet surplus of $30 to $40 billion resulting fromimmigration...