Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as troublesome to travelers is the specter of the Internal Revenue Service going after frequent-flyer programs. The IRS is studying the possibility of taxing free airline tickets as income. While a ruling is not expected before next year, passengers who have stashed away substantial mileage are understandably concerned and may use their bonuses soon. The airlines, on the other hand, have a reason to welcome IRS intervention. If imposing taxes on the bonuses cuts down on their use, then the frequent-flyer plans would no longer be such a dire threat to the carriers' bottom lines...
...report released by the National Institute of Justice last fall concluded that "homosexuals are probably the most frequent victims" of hate-motivated violence, but the "criminal-justice system -- like the rest of society -- has not recognized the seriousness" of the problem. Senator Alan Cranston of California has introduced a bill that would require the Justice Department to record all hate crimes against homosexuals. Once that information is in hand, Cranston says, he will move to make such crimes a violation of federal civil rights laws...
...only way to halt the violence. The police are not hopeful. "Short of jailing large numbers of people, all we can do is just go out there and stem it as much as we can," says Liljedahl. The transit company has a different answer: when attacks become too frequent, buses are temporarily rerouted. So far, no passengers object...
...Frequent- flyer plans threaten a vulnerable airline industry. -- The Fed may be facing political pressures. -- Welcome to "hell camp...
...promise to tell his story as he remembers it and "not to impose upon it the revisionary wisdom of age." But his prose betrays a mature intelligence. It is deceptively simple and consistently enchanting. Here is a pilot's view of Santa Barbara: "In the autumn the fogs were frequent, and moved in very quickly, as though the earth were pulling a blanket up to its chin in preparation for a cold night." Thanks to many such moments, Flights of Passage reaches well beyond those who "had been happy in that timeless world of young men." Youth is a universal...