Word: musee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark. The pact will not take effect until Nov. 1, but it has already come under heavy fire. Critics both in and out of the airline industry charge that the accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse Air, a Dallas-based discount carrier: "If you take away the airlines' prerogative of scheduling flights when the passenger wants them, then you take away deregulation and put everything in the hands of the FAA. That was certainly not the intent of the people who wrote...
...Muse and others have their suggestions for dealing with congestion. One is to construct more airports. "If the highways are crowded," says Phil Bakes, president of Continental Airlines, "the role of the Government is to build more roads, not to tell people what time to go to and from work." But not one major U.S. airport has been built in the past ten years, despite a 50% increase in passenger traffic; local opposition to increased noise levels is stalling sorely needed expansion of at least a dozen existing facilities...
...services offered. Virtually every carrier now funnels traffic through efficient hub terminals that link the cities it serves. For the most part, the industry has divided itself into two complementary groups. On the one hand are what some analysts call "the backpack and raisin" carriers such as People and Muse, which offer low fares. On the other are such established airlines as United, Delta, American and Northwest, which offer something for everyone while concentrating on travelers who want reasonable comfort and firm reservations. Yet another development has been the expansion of commuter and feeder lines, which provide service to small...
...Bonfire of the Vanities, is another story. Or is it? Rolling Stone magazine has signed him, for a $250,000-plus paycheck, to write Vanities in 27 cliffhanging installments, in the venerable tradition of Dickens, Zola and Dostoyevsky. The real cliffhanger is how long Wolfe can keep tapping the muse without missing an issue. "Two-week deadlines are very rough," admits the author, who has holed up, luxuriously enough, in Southampton, L.I., for his summer labors. The plot of his periodic potboiler revolves around a Jewish New York City mayor faced with civil and racial strife and a famous nonfiction...
...Muse Erato's favored son . . . or daughter...