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...Competitors jetted to join the cut-and-simplify frenzy, with United's top executives holding late-night sessions to get their own new fares into ads right on American's heels. "This is good for the traveler and good for the company," says Edmund Greenslet, publisher of the Airline Monitor trade journal. "This new structure was long overdue...
...clear winners under the simplified fare plans. They will get as much as 50% off the previous first-class fares and 38% off unrestricted coach rates on American's flights and realize similar savings on other carriers. "The business traveler was getting ripped off," says the Airline Monitor's Greenslet. "It's just not fair when the price of a full- fare ticket is three times that of a deep-discount ticket." The new fares will be no more than 49% higher than American's discount rates. That should be particularly helpful to self-employed travelers and to small businessmen...
Wearing the colors of their country, or their company sponsor, the front runners do not acknowledge the cheering crowd. Conservative and calculating, they monitor their pace and fluid levels with the detachment of a boilerman checking fuel guages. Clumps of serious runners follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then the hump of the bell curve runs by, the anonymous pack one standard deviation from the mean. After that there are no more clumps but, rather, a constant stream, preventing you from crossing the street without careful timing and a quick dash...
...desks and bookshelves that have furnished collegiate rooms for generations. School pennants and posters would likely be smeared across the walls. But there might be special TV consoles -- a few colleges have them now -- that could beam up taped lectures by any professor on campus or even let students monitor courses from other schools. Built-in computer terminals, similar to ones in place at Dartmouth, could tap into the card catalogs of half the college libraries in the country, call up encyclopedia articles or scan the daily papers. A glance at the quad outside would show groups of teens...
Gail Harris, a Monitor News anchor and Kennedy School graduate, cited the continuing demand that female television broadcasters be attractive and cheerful...