Word: savers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fierce competition has been the norm since Congress deregulated the airline industry two years ago. Discount fares like the Super Saver cut ticket prices by up to 55%. For a while, the crowds of new passengers kept earnings up, but the combination of rising fuel costs and recession sent the airlines into a downdraft. Since 1979 the price of jet fuel has jumped from 40? per gal. to 92?, while passenger traffic has slid by 3%. The major carriers, which earned a record $1.2 billion in 1978, have lost a total of $333 million...
What about the "small" saver who wants to set aside 25? or so from his allowance each week? Bankers blush at the thought that they might be thwarting grade-school thrift, and some have moved to exempt children from the new fees. New York's Manufacturers Hanover, for example, waives for minors the $1 quarterly charge on pint-size accounts. But if the pressure on banks to streamline their operations continues to grow, the kids, and many of their on-the-brink elders, may find that a piggy bank is the best they...
...gallon jug of vino now comes in a 1.5-liter size, while the half-gallon of hard stuff has become a 1.75-liter container. Judging the better buy between sizes is enough to drive an Einstein to drink. A handy tool to avert befuddlement is "The Liquor & Wine Pocket Saver," a small slide rule that compares prices in both standard and metric sizes. Example: if the old quart of one whisky brand went for $15.14, the 1.75-liter bottle should cost $27.99, the 4-liter model $63.95. At many liquor stores, Pocket $aver is on the house, plus...
...willingness and ability of corporations to bring about progressive change and social justice is unfounded. Noting that U.S. corporations employ less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the black population in South Africa, Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, says the principles are a "face-saver or fig leaf for the corporations that in no way change the fundamental problems of apartheid, and are being used counter to Sullivan's own intentions." "Corporations are active in South Africa for cheap labor," Nolan says, adding, "it is simply unrealistic to believe they will take steps that would imperil their...