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Just when it seems that Oral is doomed, fate, in the form of wealthy greyhound mogul Jerry Collins, steps in and saves...
...airfares, headed the way of the stagecoach? It did not look that way last week, as - ticket buyers by the thousands queued at bus terminals in Dallas, Atlanta and ten other Southern cities, forming ragged lines that stretched for blocks. For one hour only, the largest U.S. bus company, Greyhound Lines, offered 59 cents tickets to New York City, Los Angeles, and anywhere else its drivers go. The response to the promotional gimmick, which was designed to call attention to the company's new $59 fares on many routes, was overwhelming. About 20,000 tickets were sold. "A bus ride...
...thing to ban smoking on the job; that is already done by such organizations as the Christian Science Monitor and Greyhound. But labor lawyers are convinced that USG is treading on wispy legal ground in trying to extend its prohibition past working hours. USG's plan, they say, will run into problems of discrimination against minorities or against the physically disabled. Editorialized the Chicago Sun Times: "The issue here isn't whether smoking is good or bad. The issue is this: How far can an employer reach into the employees' personal lives? Not this...
...took out a makeup kit, dabbed at his forehead and smoothed his thinning hair. One of the younger and more telegenic Senators who sits at the back of the chamber, Albert Gore of Tennessee, complained that the yellow wall that serves as his TV backdrop looks like "a Greyhound bus terminal...
Creating a 20% minimum corporate tax. This would prevent large, profitable companies from getting off scot-free at income-tax time, as many have done in the past because of loopholes. Boeing, ITT, General Dynamics, Greyhound and Grumman, among others, paid no taxes between 1981 and 1984, according to a study by Citizens for Tax Justice, a consumer and labor group. Commented T.A. Wilson, chairman of Boeing: "The complaint is that through various techniques, we defer taxes. I would just as soon have a minimum tax and take a lot less of that flak." The minimum tax would help finance...