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...result, Freelandia can schedule three times its current number of trips without increasing costs, and the membership could triple without anyone being bumped from flights. Also jet fuel prices increased 345 percent last year, the Cost of Living Council reported, so either more people have to join to offset fuel cost, or the price of Freelandia's airshares (tickets) will...
Loaded Rivalry. The Postal Service says that publishers should be tough enough and inventive enough to offset their new mailing costs with new revenue. That sounds easy, but the experience of the magazine industry-and the record of its casualties-shows that it is not. Businesses ordinarily pass along added operating costs to their customers...
Members are reported to favor the measure by a narrow 5-to-4 margin, and McGee may decide not to seek full Senate approval if the vote remains that close. Basically, any congressional remedy would involve an appropriation to offset revenue that the Postal Service seeks from second-class users. Klassen opposes that approach...
...Republicans believe that New Jersey Congressman Peter W. Rodino, the dapper Judiciary Committee chairman, has already prejudged Nixon's guilt and is determined to impeach him. The Republicans' respect for O'Neill, and their knowledge that Rodino leans heavily on the floor leader for advice, helps offset those suspicions. House Speaker Albert, who tends to shrink from the enormity of impeachment, also looks to O'Neill. Says one senior member of the House: "Tip's put some backbone and steel in the Speaker and Rodino." Says Albert of O'Neill: "Tip is a rare...
Hughes was just indicted for stock manipulation of still another airline (TIME, Jan 7). Tinnin's book suggests that he used his investment in TWA mainly as a tax vehicle to offset the profits from his Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, the TWA-Hughes saga is a damning indictment of the legal system that serves the very rich. Indeed, Justice Burger, dissenting from the Supreme Court's 6-2 pro-Hughes decision, referred to the monstrous litigation as a 20th century version of Bleak House, in which Charles Dickens argued that the "grand principle" of the legal...