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...find it tough to navigate online systems. "Between New York and Chicago there are over 300 fares at any given point in time," says Roger Ballou, president of American Express Travel RelatedServices Group. "That's just the airlines. Then there are hotels, cars and everything else." Still, travel experts predict that do-it-yourself ticketing, which accounts for less than 5% of all airline reservations, will grow rapidly as more Americans turn to their computers...
...jealousy among low-fat fanatics as well as less cal-conscious fans of soft desserts. Currier residents, like the first family on the block to get a color TV or a '57 Chevy, jump at any opportunity to express their pride. Chris Baker '96 goes so far as to predict that application to Currier house will experience a "drastic change" this year...
...course, getting smart costs money, as do the growing number of federally mandated improvements, and Detroit is passing on a good part of that cost to consumers. In recent months, average spending on a new car has exceeded $20,000 for the first time ever, and Ford economists predict this cost will rise to $30,000 by 2002. Indeed, the average family now spends more than half its annual income for a new car, compared with only a third in 1974. And the 4.7% average price rise for the new model year is running ahead of the current 2.7% annual...
While proponents of its predict that its various technologies could reduce highway fatalities as much as 8% by 2011 in addition to expediting traffic and cutting down on pollution, the program is not without its critics. They are concerned about not only its cost, which could total $209 billion by 2011, but other consequences as well. Some fear that making more efficient use of highways and producing cars that are more attractive to drive, for example, will encourage more car owners to take to the roads, thereby negating any drop in pollution resulting from better gas mileage...
...predict, will get little supportfrom the minority community, because of the waythey treated Ken Reeves," Winters says. "I don'tbelieve any organization has the right to dictateterms such as that to an elected official...