Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, the General Accounting Office reported last week that at airports with one or two dominant carriers, fares per passenger-mile were 27% higher than at other airports. Airline spokesmen disputed the conclusion. The Air Transport Association, an industry group, released a study showing that fares were only 3.8% higher at hub airports. Congressional subcommittees are studying both reports...
...higher crude- oil prices, and no relief is in sight. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose squabbling has sometimes led to price wars, were relatively cooperative with one another when they met last week in Vienna. Because of strong worldwide demand for OPEC's crude, the group decided that it could boost its self-imposed production quota by 1 million bbl. a day, to 19.5 million, without suffering any serious decline in oil's market price of about $18 per bbl. Moreover, OPEC decided to review the new quotas in September, when the oil ministers meet again...
...backward to the thuggish practices of the Cultural Revolution may be the only way it knows to deal with another kind of madness: popular anger. At the time of the massacre, many citizens were so incensed that the P.L.A. was being used against the people that they ambushed stray groups of soldiers with fire bombs, bricks, clubs, even bare hands. Later, outgunned and powerless, the resistance turned to words. In the shadow of the Beijing Hotel, a young man spotted a military helicopter hovering over Tiananmen and wrathfully wished destruction on it. "Fall down!" he cried. "Fall down!" Across...
Some 40,000 Chinese are studying in the U.S., one of the largest group of foreigners on American campuses. They represent a crucial element in China's hopes for economic modernization, but they have also had firsthand experience with Western political freedoms. All around the U.S. last week, they were in the forefront of protests against the repression in their homeland...
...writer and deputy from Lithuania. Gorbachev was clearly exasperated by the Lithuanians' sudden departure, calling after them, "I ask you to be calm because this is not so simple." In the end, Gorbachev won passage of a compromise measure, placing the commission's charter in the hands of a group that includes leading dissidents...