Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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iated against the deep-discount threat with a blizzard of their own special offers. They had on their side a powerful weapon that People lacked: the sophisticated, highly computerized reservation systems linking them with at least 20,000 U.S. travel agents. The systems allowed the airlines to launch myriad discounts, usually on advance purchases with high (as much as 50%) penalties for failure to show up for the seat. For its part, People operated more like a mass-transit company. It offered two cheap daily fares--peak and off-peak--to most destinations, sold few tickets in advance and frequently...
...prime uses: archival scanning that once required exhaustive card- catalog searches and high-speed analysis of myriad numbers until the machine kicks out revelatory patterns. In 1979, for instance, the Miami Herald scanned with a computer all 2 million of Dade County's property-tax assessments to dig out inequities. In 1984 Long Island's (N.Y.) Newsday parsed every state- awarded highway contract in the area and all major county sewer contracts over eleven years to discover that five favored firms collected 86% of the boodle...
...some may not opt to wile away summer hours by browsing through bookstores, if you do, you've come to the right place. With more than 25 bookstores within ten blocks, the Square rivals the University's 11-library collection. And with stores as varied as the Square's myriad of restaurants, both sophisticated bookaholics and novices can find something to surprise and please...
...walking in front of Holyoke Center, minding my own business, when something extraordinary happened. I was just starting to listen to one of the Square's myriad biblical prophets when someone burst through a nearby crowd of mimes and lifted me over his head. I looked down into the blue, slavering face of a vampire with teeth well over six inches long, and screamed at the top of my lungs...
...nasty and loathesome qualities of Harvard people are so well-known that it is almost passe to mention them. Much more interesting are the myriad drunks, psychopaths, amateur astrologers, zombies, self-proclaimed demigods, Sleestaks, princes-in-exile, Shi'ite Mormons, invisible people, levitators, Klingon spies, werewolves, and assorted cultists who swarm the place...