Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from now on, a lot of passengers are going to be paying more. Last week, following Continental's lead, major airlines threw out their so-called junk fares, which offered discounts on tickets purchased three to seven days in advance. Since most last-minute flyers are business travelers, few vacationers would be affected. But at the same time, Continental was tinkering with its MaxSaver fares, the popular, deep-discount tickets that must be bought two weeks in advance and require a Saturday-night stay. Starting this week, most MaxSaver fares will increase between $10 and $20 each...
...political science major at Amherst College and a graduate of Columbia Law School, Kramer brings an impressive amount of journalistic yardage to TIME. He spent more than a decade as an editor and political writer for New York magazine, and his weekly column on national affairs was often quoted by other journals. He did a short stint as publisher of the paperback house Berkley Books. In the mid-1970s, Kramer was editor and publisher of More, a lively journalism review. Most recently he served as chief political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report...
...Trade Representative. Last week's numbers notwithstanding, the trade deficit remains a major threat to the domestic economy. The next trade rep, with fast-track negotiating powers, will face a thorny round of talks with members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the need to continue pressing Japan and other U.S. trading partners to open more of their markets to American exporters...
...Russian-dominated leadership in Moscow can find small comfort in the fact that the Estonian itch for independence has not spread considerably farther -- yet. Under Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet nationality policy seemed to mean that national groups could organize the likes of folkloric song and dance companies, but that the major decisions affecting the welfare of national groups were made in Moscow. Bureaucratic centralization reached such absurd dimensions that, as a Lithuanian once complained, "Ivan Petrovich must rule on the opening times for toilets in towns with names he cannot even pronounce...
Flush with success and growing demand, the major carriers raise their most . popular discount fares. Business travelers took the first hit, but vacationers will suffer as well...