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Antagonism increased as the negotiationsdragged on more than 60 months past the expirationdate of the old contract and reached a peak inDecember when thousands turned out to hear theReverend Jesse L. Jackson speak at a union rally...
...Crimson headline in September heralded a "311-Year Peak" in enrollment as veterans continued to flow into Cambridge from overseas occupation...
...world now knows, that's precisely what happened. Once the toast of Wall Street, Netscape appeared to be toast. Its historic browser--the software that took the cold gray wonkish world of the Internet and made it multimedia, rendering the Net usable by millions--had at its peak accounted for 85% of the market. Now it has, at best, a 55%-to-60% share, and that's slipping fast. Its stock, which once soared above $85 a share (adjusted for a 2-for-1 stock split), lost nearly half its value during a three-month period and hit bottom...
...belong to bonus-reward programs. These business travelers ring up a staggering 500 billion points and miles annually--more than the airlines, rental-car companies and hotel chains can accommodate without cutting off their paying customers. Hotel rooms and airline seats are increasingly--and exasperatingly--scarce during peak travel times, which makes it harder and harder for travelers to redeem their points in the traditional fashion, even though such offerings are still the bread and butter of frequent-travel programs. With the average travel-frequency program costing $25 million to maintain, travel suppliers know they had better offer alternatives...
Students also expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of direct shuttles to the fields, the shuttles' relative infrequency and the fact that they don't run during hours of peak demand for athletes...