Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were that 90 of them had bought their tickets on the cheap. The other ten had shelled out as much as $866. The business travelers had probably paid $550, the pleasure trippers $362, the bargain hunters as little as $159. The only people who did any better were the frequent flyers who cashed in their mileage and paid nothing...
Saddled with a reputation for erratic performance, Continental pioneered the junk fares last February to woo business flyers. "Our first order was to restore the quality of the operation and then offer a fare structure to entice the frequent flyer back," explains Continental president Martin Shugrue. Other airlines soon followed, but reluctantly. "We never thought these fares made much economic sense," says Al Becker, spokesman for American Airlines. "We matched Continental for competitive reasons...
Eric, for example, has learned to draw a capital E, but cannot write his own name. He is far from the worst case that Rayborn has seen. Once, a child with Down syndrome was enrolled in her class. He was still in diapers and required frequent changing. "I had to run out and buy Pampers," she recalls. "He had never been disciplined. He acted like an animal...
Although searches for tenured posts still require the dean's authorization, under the new system, personal power politics and individual negotiations with the dean of the Faculty have become less frequent because departments don't have to lobby for every professor they seek to hire...
Miami will lead the league in frequent-flyer coupons and consumption of Vivarin...