Word: haulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similarly, Air Florida, which three years ago was an everglade-hopping intrastate company, has selectively branched out on major long-haul flights, where it undersells the majors. Pacific Southwest Airlines, long noted as a low-cost carrier operating between San Francisco and Los Angeles, has taken advantage of deregulation to expand to Las Vegas. On this route, PSA is demonstrating that a well-run regional can undercut the price of auto travel, the historic enemy of the short-haul airline...
Perhaps the most damaging effect of ICC controls was that they hindered competition. Companies trying to obtain the right to haul goods between one state and another had to face costly and exhausting ice hearings, where they were obliged to show that they would not hurt existing firms. Truckers already on the road naturally protested that they would suffer. Timothy Person, a black St. Louis mover of household goods, worked for nearly 30 years to have his company licensed to transport goods outside Missouri. Nine national carriers opposed him, but in February Person finally won a nationwide license...
...point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative for the Pittsburgh Pirates: "We had to give up a great deal to get a settlement. We don't know if it's going to be worth it in the long haul...
...gathered limbs and rusting metal appliances, which they pile neatly in front of the gate, offerings to the god of civil disobedience. True to their part of the script, police come out from behind the gate, from a cordon, and let bulldozers push debris inside the fence, where dumptrucks haul it away. Across the street, Seabrook police--small town cops not prepared by experience or temperament for a weekend like this--try to arrest one young man for flattening the tire of a parked patrolcar. A crowd circles the men, and through a narrow gap between a parked cars...
...declines were seen as confirmation of that prediction. Insisted one Federal Reserve governor last week: "Our strategy for fighting inflation is agreed on completely. We are focusing on money supply as the best way to combine growth with reduced inflation over the long haul. If that means broader swings in interest rates in the short...