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...price schedules are often a bewildering maze of choices and restrictions. A coast-to-coast flight on a full-service carrier like United Airlines may have dozens of different fares that hinge on such variables as when tickets are bought and the length of a traveler's stay. Moreover, the price of flights of comparable distances may differ widely, depending on how much competition exists on that route. To make matters more confusing, carriers keep close watch on one another's prices and adjust their own prices accordingly. United alone makes 3,500 fare changes...
...works that have borrowed on the Philby affair, the most successful has been John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a maze-like thriller that details the entrapment and confession of a double agent. It was Le Carre who gave currency to the word "mole," a term denoting a traitor implanted deep in an intelligence network that is now a fixed part of espionage jargon. And while Le Carne and others like him explore the professional side of the celebrated case, others concentrate on the story's personal dimensions. This summer's highly acclaimed film, Another Country, based...
...trussed her and then remembered his cameras were in the trunk of his car. He went for the equipment, returned to the maze of apartments all looking alike and realized he did not know her floor, much less her apartment number. He left and for months avoided the area...
Wurman started AccessPress when he moved to Los Angeles, found himself lost in the maze of freeways and suburbs, and assumed that many other people must be puzzled too. Publishing experts counseled him to print no more than 5,000 copies of his prototype guide; he sold 60,000. Access guides on how to cope with San Francisco, Hawaii, New York City and even football followed, with total sales of some 580,000. New guides to Washington, D.C., dogs and baseball are now out, with future fields as bright as a Klee painting...
...increased heat provoked anger in academia, where professors have objected to what they saw as a maze of unreasonable and overly bureaucratic regulations. University officials, like Harvard Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien, argued that the government audits were conducted without regard for common academic accounting, staffing, and record-keeping procedures...