Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when steel companies raise prices" would help keep inflation under control. He wants to federalize the welfare system and enact national health insurance. He believes in keeping the energy growth rate down to 2% a year to conserve resources, a proposal he made in June 1975. He wants to save the country's land from the ravages of strip mining and unrestrained exploitation of its resources by carefully developing coal and publicly owned fossil fuel. He proposes breaking up oil companies both vertically and horizontally...
...bunch of cowboys," he was told. "Play anything you want." Replied Abravanel: "I think you deserve the best." Dillon was treated to Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. After the first movement there was an ovation. Abravanel explained that the symphony had four movements, so would the audience please save the applause until the end. The audience obediently counted; unfortunately, there was only a slight pause between the third and fourth movements, so that when the symphony crescendoed to conclusion, it was greeted with silence...
...effective way of attracting new passengers. While cut-rate fares are of less consideration to business travelers, who must fly where and when the job dictates, they appeal to vacationers, who are often willing to fly at less convenient times and to schedule trips far in advance to save a few dollars. Fully 80% of Pan American's transatlantic passengers take advantage of cut-rate fares...
...major airlines (TWA alone lost $86.3 million and Eastern $49.7 million). As a result, the basic New York-Chicago economy fare will rise $2, to $76, by April. Unfortunately, the increases leave the domestic fare structure fully as complicated by discount and promotional rates as the international picture. To save 30% on domestic flights by major U.S. airlines, for example, a traveler must book at least 14 days in advance, pay ten days before departure and stay at the destination between seven and 30 days-with an additional discount available for flying late at night. But the amount of these...
...when Dave Bell gave the Crimson a 4-3 lead early in the third period, everybody shut up, and fast. Everybody, that is, save for the 500 or so Crimson supporters who made the trip, and who, along with an inspired Harvard band, were the only ones to go home happy...