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...through the carriers with computerized networks, compared with 61% in 1983. The most dominant system is American's SABRE (an acronym for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment), used by 14,000 agencies to keep up with some 45 million different fares at 281 airlines. United's Apollo, the second largest, is used by 10,000 agencies. Last year the SABRE system brought American profits of $134 million, mainly in user fees collected from such airlines as Pan Am and Southwest, which lack systems of their...
Last week Sorrell was on the attack again, singling out one of the oldest and most venerable names in U.S. advertising. In an unwelcome bid, the Briton proposed to pay $730 million to acquire the Ogilvy Group, which owns Ogilvy & Mather, the fifth largest U.S. advertising firm. The agency, which created the Man in the Hathaway Shirt campaign and today's sleek celebrity ads for American Express, has been independent since it was founded in 1948. If Sorrell were to succeed in taking over Ogilvy, his combined empire (estimated annual billings: $13.5 billion) would rank a close second to Britain...
...March 6, a force of 10,000 guerrillas launched an assault on the city, which was defended by an estimated 11,000 government troops. From ! the rebel perspective, Jalalabad was a logical, indeed necessary target. Government forces occupied 25 of Afghanistan's 31 provincial capitals. Seizing Jalalabad, the third largest city, would not only wound the fragile morale of government troops, but it would also enhance the rebels' bid for wider international recognition of their newly formed government-in-exile. Some mujahedin leaders confidently predicted that the city would fall within a week...
Under the circumstances, the Egyptians have done remarkably well. Their largest and most visible project is a $17 million effort to clean up the pyramids' site and restore 15 tombs on the Giza Plateau. Workers have begun clearing away tons of sand and rubbish, thus eliminating one source of wind- borne erosion. They have also begun shoring up about 30 ft. of the crumbling stones at the base of the pyramid of Cheops...
After the motion, City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton informed the council that Harvard--the largest property owner in the city--had objected, but that he had not yet determined if a seventh vote was necessary...