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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest turkey Moreau remembers selling was a 37-pound turkey, which he estimates would feed 18 people. The smallest turkeys he sells are in the eight-pound range...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkey Day Brings Business to Savenor's | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...much a part of the holiday season as the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center: the annual airline price gouge. And on Tuesday, Delta and American airlines, two of the nation's largest carriers, decided to keep with tradition and hiked their fares an average of 3 percent on domestic routes. Customers aren't likely to be sympathetic to the airlines' cries over rising fuel costs, which is the primary reason cited by Delta and American for their fare increases - nor should they necessarily believe it. "This is the time of year when airlines have enormous control over pricing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Tis the Season to Pay Exorbitant Air Fares | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...have been developed in all these cities to force subcontractors to pay decent wages, and there is no reason to believe that Harvard could not employ similar means. In fact, Harvard already directly participates in determining the wages of its subcontracted workers through contract negotiations. As one of the largest and most powerful institutions in the state, Harvard has no trouble influencing the firms with which it does business...

Author: By Amy C. Offner, | Title: Nothing But Hollow Excuses | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...billion Amount UPS raised in its IPO last week, largest in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...enforcement in America. Two sets of numbers were released Monday, each casting their own optimistic light on the citizenry and what one analyst called "the contagion of lawfulness." The first figures, from the FBI, show that serious crime plunged 10 percent in the first half of 1999, the largest drop in the 1990s. Those rates include rape, murder, aggravated assault and burglaries. And as if that's not enough to put a smile on Bill Bennett's face, new numbers from the private antidrug group Partnership for a Drug Free America show that drug use among teens aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's Hoping Numbers Don't Lie | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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