Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record 71,500 passengers. Its average load factor is an enviable 69%. Last year it earned $1,095,000 on revenues of $23.5 million. The biggest attraction is Icelandic's small fares. A round-trip excursion ticket between New York and Luxembourg costs $259 in the peak season and requires no minimum stay. For turboprops the fare is $239. The cheapest equivalent flight on any other scheduled line is $320 New York-to-Brussels, with a minimum stay of 29 days...
...jobs for blacks by 1974. In Chicago last summer, union and black leaders announced that they would start putting at least 4,000 blacks into building trades unions. Although the Labor Department has granted $498,000 for training, only 75 blacks have been recruited-and the peak construction season is more than half over. The agreement has an "escape clause" that ties the unions' recruiting efforts to the state of the local economy. Since construction activity is slack, the unions do not want to train blacks for jobs that even whites cannot get. Moreover, Chicago blacks have been slow...
...succeeds. The play seems like what Weimar seems like, anomie everywhere, drunken revelry, heavy humor, recrimination and insecurity. Anna's super bourgeois parents, played by Martin Andrucki and Raye Bush, are convincing, and though they are without any subtlety, the roles seem, written that way. John Camera reaches a peak as the profiteer Murk in his drunken scene. All three are the kind of Germans you love to hate...
Oversold Idea. Another cause of today's problems is yesterday's lack of advance planning, especially on a regional basis. Some utilities underestimated the appeal of air conditioning, which alone has changed the peak load period from winter days to summer nights in many parts of the nation. Others oversold the idea of "all-electric living"; electric heating uses three times the energy required by conventional heating. Meantime, consumption of electricity increased with population growth...
Only a year after its triumphant conquest of the moon, NASA can barely coax enough money out of Congress to continue existing programs. Its budget has been slashed to $3.3 billion for fiscal 1971 compared with peak spending of $5.2 billion in 1965. Total employment by NASA and its private contractors has dwindled from 420,000 in the heyday of the Apollo program to fewer than 145,000 today. Nor has NASA gotten significant support from the White House. "With the entire future and the entire universe before us," said President Nixon, outlining the Administration's cautious new approach...