Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline has a good safety record, but passengers' beefs range from cavalier treatment by some of the company's 650 employees-augmented in the peak season by 100 often inexperienced summer employees-to the quirky booking system. Reservations made through other airlines often are not entered in Air New England's computers. Many passengers complain that even if they book directly with Air New England, their reservations are lost or simply not honored. Because so many flights are sold out in advance, or just canceled (even in good weather), travelers routinely reserve seats on several flights...
...over the pace of negotiations for a new contract; more than 500 flights were delayed that month; and 15% were canceled. In July more than 800 out of 6,300 flights were either late or scrubbed because of bad weather and air traffic control delays. Then, in August, the peak month, the mechanics carried out a three-week job action. More than 500 flights were dropped, causing a loss of 15,000 passengers and more than $500,000 in revenue...
...Short trips are fuel wasters. Drives of five miles or less account for about 15% of the mileage on U.S. cars, but consume over 30% of the gasoline. Reason: the trip is over before the engine begins to operate at peak efficiency...
...period from 1975 to the spring of 1979, when the third recession of the decade probably began, is often called "the longest peacetime expansion in U.S. history." Some expansion! Unemployment stands at almost 6%, and to keep the rate from climbing even higher than its 1975 recession peak of nearly 9%, both the Ford and Carter Administrations have had to stuff the people's pockets with almost as much inflationary funny-money, in the form of Government deficit spending, as was generated in all of World...
...citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, thus providing the legal framework for future waves of immigration. By 1955 the first brown and black faces appeared in Yorkshire mill towns, drawn by high wages and, ironically, a vision of colonial-era civility. In 1962, after this immigration reached a peak of nearly 90,000 a year, a worried Parliament began limiting Commonwealth entry and the influx was reduced...