Word: priced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline fares are behaving like a jetliner climbing out of a tailspin. After tumbling some 12% since 1981, the cost of flying has risen by about 10% in the past three years and by around 6% so far this year, even though passenger traffic has been flat. The price hikes have stirred the suspicion of the Justice Department, which launched an antitrust investigation into possible collusion among the nation's major airlines. The Justice probe is seeking to determine whether the fare hikes were economically justified or the airlines acted in concert to raise prices...
Once a backwater of the Federal Government, the Post Office Department was reorganized in 1970 as a semiprivate, quasi-military company called the U.S. Postal Service. With 825,000 employees, it has more troops than the U.S. Army. But pressure is growing from the public as the price of stamps goes up while service goes down, and hotshot new businesses like Federal Express demonstrate that a letter can absolutely, positively get there overnight. The Postal Service has had to automate to move more than 160 billion pieces of mail a year with ever greater efficiency. New machines have reduced handling...
...memorable campaign for British Airways, in which the island of Manhattan is seen coming in for a landing at London's Heathrow Airport, has run in 40 countries. Customers have liked the global idea: Saatchi agencies now represent more than 100 clients in five or more countries, including Fisher-Price toys and Allied-Lyons foods...
...Louis-Dreyfus will control stock options worth at least $3 million. That value will rise substantially if he does his job well. Earlier this month, Louis-Dreyfus pledged to boost the value of the company's shares, which have traded as high as $10.70, from their current price of $4 to at least $7.85 within three years. More than another increase in its global reach, that is the kind of growth figure that Saatchi & Saatchi now badly needs...
...keep his reform spirit alive, Gorbachev has continually sought out the middle ground. He feints left, moves right and usually lands in the center. But such compromise policies come at a price, contributing to a widespread feeling that Gorbachev has no clear policies for the future. As Deputy Nina Dedeneva, a textile worker from Omsk, complained at last week's session, "People have ceased to believe in perestroika because the difficulties have only increased, while the period for overcoming them has become too long." Now the Kremlin has asked the people for another five years, and that could prove...