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...such a fuss over doctors' offices? Because few public arenas provide such a large captive audience. These page-flipping patients not only are counted in readership surveys used to determine advertising rates but often end up as subscribers. Losing such readers would be a severe blow to magazines like Expecting and PEOPLE, which find a substantial share of their audience in the waiting rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Targeting The Waiting Room | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Travelers are willing to follow circuitous paths simply to drop more free miles into their kitty. Reports Ardi Perry, a travel agent at Aquarius Travel Service in West Palm Beach, Fla.: "We have people who will change in Atlanta and accept a layover when they used to fuss. It's just to build up mileage." Passengers go out of their way to stay on the same carrier whenever possible. That is the main benefit that frequent-flyer clubs offer to the airlines. Says John Pincavage, an airline analyst at the Paine Webber investment firm: "The | frequent-flyer plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free-For-all In the Skies | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Independence is the only way for us to go now," says George Mye, chairman of the islanders' 19-member Coordinating Council. After initially dismissing the fuss, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke last week dispatched a Cabinet minister to Thursday, the capital, for discussions. The government then promised to set up a commission to safeguard the islanders' interests every day of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: If It's Tuesday, This Must Be. . . | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...this fuss over what? Well, backers of the suit say that club members are entitled to certain privileges such as networking and club side benefits that women lose out on by virtue of their...

Author: By James H. Colopy, | Title: Futile Fuss Over Final Clubs | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

Long seen as a symbol of button- down regimentation, white shirts are back in style. -- No fuss, no muss: video pets are here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: February 29, 1988 | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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