Word: hauled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that catered to families and vacationers and left the business-travel market to the bigger carriers. But wait--what was that showing up at People last week? A smattering of pinstripes? Sure enough, People said it plans to install first-class cabins, now available on only a few long-haul 747 flights, in all 80 of its planes. In addition, the upstart airline began a frequent-flyer promotion similar to those offered by other major carriers. Such programs, which enable customers who fly often to earn free trips or other gifts, have proved to be especially popular with business travelers...
...protectors are trying to keep the endowment growing at a stable pace and hedge for a time, of higher inflation for example, when Harvard might need more money from the endowment. "We could spend more from the endowment and reduce tuition, but we have to spend for the long haul," says Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien...
...after Fairfax is married to a blindfolded Elsie, he is rescued by Meryll, who disguises him as his long-away son, a royal yeomen newly assigned to the Tower guard. With Fairfax on the lam under a false indentity, Elsie finds herself stuck a bride for a much longer haul than Fairfax's scheduled execution had suggested...
...fiftyish partner in a prestigious New York City law firm. The chief strength of his mystery Murder for Lunch (Simon & Schuster; 268 pages; $14.95) is its bemused glimpses of professional folkways. Murphy dryly observes how the size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners near retirement and their power-hungry successors...
...This is designed to give programs the same real level of support over the long-haul," according to O'Brien. It also prevents unpredictable factors like inflation or interest rate fluctuations from diminishing the overall value of the fund's earnings...