Word: rental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DECADES, U.S. AIR TRAVELERS have enjoyed what amounted to a bit of a free ride whenever they stepped onto a plane. They relied on travel agents to find them the best fares on the most convenient flights and to book hotel rooms and rental cars-all without charge. But these complimentary services are likely to vanish now that the major airlines have targeted their obsessive cost cutting at travel agents and demanded that they slash the commissions they charge the carriers for distributing tickets. Agencies across the country are determined not to get squeezed, and so passengers will...
...administrators, Medical School executive dean David M. Bray, the arrangement called for Harvard to keep all patents (a veritable gold mine: revenue from the University's patents are going up 20 percent a year) and for the companies to pay Harvard steep licensing fees. The University would also get rental fees from biotech firms that plan to rent out floors in center, and there was hope that the Institutes' novel approach would generate philanthropic interest...
...cajas chicas, or petty-cash drawers. One oft-cited example of banker extravagance: only weeks before its collapse, Banco Latino chartered an Air France Concorde supersonic jetliner to speed friends of the bank to a party celebrating the opening of a Paris branch. The estimated cost of the Concorde rental...
...solution is to deal preferentially withsmall businesses, Demong says. The companycurrently rents to only two national chains, AuBon Pain and Hertz Rental Cars...
...Everywhere in the country the focus has shifted from rental assistance to home ownership, except here," Galluccio says...