Word: spartanic
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...includes the well-connected children of Communist officials. The favored youth have a far better chance than most of getting good jobs or traveling abroad after graduation. Faced with a steep rise in the cost of living as a result of the reforms, many students are finding their already spartan daily lives less and less tolerable. Says a Peking university student: "Peasants are getting rich, workers get bonuses, but we still get our measly fixed allowance...
That approach included booking his first flight on the airline, an orderly if spartan pre-Thanksgiving round trip between People's headquarters at Newark International Airport and Jacksonville. "Playing a typical customer, I even phoned to make my own reservation, which has been a notoriously difficult part of getting on People Express," says Alexander. "Wonder of wonders, thanks to their new reservation system, I got through on my first...
...side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
...After Spartan Motors posted record first-quarter sales--which included a 65.7% jump in RV chassis sales over the same period last year--CEO John Sztykiel took a road trip from company headquarters in Charlotte, Mich., to meet and greet investors from Boston to Chicago. As his 41-footer swung (gingerly) through Manhattan, he spoke with TIME's Julie Rawe...
...TIME Spartan also makes fire truck and ambulance chassis. Has the Department of Homeland Security been good...