Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entirely undercut the scheduled carriers. Airlines or charter operators, for example, may cancel a flight altogether under ABC if enough passengers do not show up; they may also change arrival and departure dates. Passengers who cancel will forfeit what the CAB described as a "substantial portion" of ticket costs. ABC also will be restrained by other rules, such as prohibiting charter operators from raising ticket prices if a flight is not fully booked, so prices may well be pegged high enough to offset excessive cancellations. The result: charter fares will go down, but not dramatically. Pan American estimates the round...
...stressed that plan lately, he has never disavowed it; his aides insist that it has been misunderstood. The impression got around that Reagan would simply dump those programs on states and cities, which would have to raise taxes sharply to pay for them. Actually, Reagan would earmark a portion of the federal income tax collected in each state and locality to be kept there to finance the activities dropped by Washington...
...lunch, Mondale called our waitress by her first name. His naturalness plus the arrangement of the small tables gave the room a homey kitchen atmosphere, though a portion of the back wall was missing. Sipping soup from his spoon, Mondale explained: "...a bomb went off in the john." What I took as a joke, it turned out later, was actually true...
...India, where she had the frustrating task of encouraging birth control. She encountered every imaginable disease. Stifling her revulsion, she nursed one young leper back to health. When she returned home after two years, she was exhausted and had lost 26 pounds. But, as Jimmy remarks, "a major portion of her heart is still in India...
...return to the craft, far too late to do any good. Russian space scientists can testify to the risks. In their four known attempts to land spacecraft on Mars, one ship missed the planet completely, two apparently crashed, and the fourth transmitted for only 20 seconds, sending an undecipherable portion of one picture before lapsing into silence...