Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the continent in Hyannis, Mass., Denny's Restaurant closed before the start of what should have been its peak season. It needed at least 70 employees to serve the summer crowds flocking to Cape Cod, but was able to hire only 13. A nearby Stop & Shop Supermarket found six cashiers only by recruiting in New Bedford, Mass., 40 miles away. The store will send a van to pick up the six every morning and drive them back at night, and the company will pay the employees time and a half for their two hours of daily travel...
...little secrets" of the airline industry are out in the open and stirring unprecedented public outrage. In the increasingly overcrowded skies, snafus that threaten safety are on the rise, and everyday service is deteriorating. As more than 100 million U.S. travelers take to the air during this year's peak summer travel season, the Federal Government is recording a surging number of delayed flights, near midair collisions and air-traffic- control errors. The airlines, on the defensive as never before, are scrambling to improve conditions in the hope of easing a growing indignation in Congress and thus heading...
...millions of travelers take to the air during the peak summer travel season, the Government is recording a surging number of consumer complaints, delayed flights, near midair collisions and air- traffic- control errors. The airlines are scrambling to improve conditions in the hope of easing growing indignation in Congress. -- Scandal dethrones the ZZZZ Best carpet- cleaning king...
...1980s, wages have been lagging slightly behind inflation, even at today's comparatively mild pace of about 5%. Between 1980 and June of this year, for example, the average weekly earnings for U.S. workers increased from $235 a week to $309. But after adjustment for inflation, including a dramatic peak at the beginning of the 1980s, that paycheck actually slid backward over those years, to $227. The rise in productivity among U.S. manufacturing industries, however, was a brisk 4% each year from 1981 to 1985. During most of the previous decade, this measure of output per worker had increased only...
...moment when a satisfactory balance existed between the presidency and the forces outside that seek to diminish it has rarely if ever occurred. Thomas Jefferson was worried about the "tyranny of the legislature." By 1861, Executive Branch power was at a peak in the hands of Abraham Lincoln, only to slip from the grasp of indifferent and incompetent Presidents until Scholar Woodrow Wilson could suggest in 1885 that Congress had become the dominant part of Government. By the time Wilson won the White House, though, the U.S. was assuming international responsibilities that gave new importance to the presidency. That power...