Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 8-9 p.m.). "Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul" brings the special Simone sound to jazz, blues and folk music in her one-woman show...
...problem, from the airlines' point of view, is that a statute specifically prohibits unjust discrimination in fares. Discrimination in fare policy consists of offering "a special tariff . . . to a limited class of persons . . . under substantially similar circumstances and conditions as the service rendered to those not eligible for the tariff." In other words, age alone is not justification for offering reduced fares so long as both old and young receive the same basic service--in this case, a plane ride from one city to another...
...order to capture segments of the population that otherwise would not fly, the airlines have to devise special fares that are not discriminatory or, at the very least, not unjustly discriminatory. The range of fares paid by various passengers on any given flight today testifies to the ingenuity of the airlines in doing just that...
Only the CAB's decision later this month will tell whether Youth Fare is really dead or whether it faces, at best, another reprieve and another era of controversy. If the CAB does kill the Fare, or if the courts kill it at some time in the future, only special Congressional legislation can resurrect it. Senator Percy has in fact proposed such legislation, but even if his bill in its present form would be feasible (and some Hill veterans doubt that it would be), no one knows when, if at all, Congress will enact...
...there is to be a special fund for mass transportation or if money from the highway fund is to be used for urban transit, the proposal will have to get strong backing from the administration. President Nixon has apparently not yet made any decision on the matter. But from the past records of Volpe and Turner it seems unlikely that Nixon is being advised to cut highway funds in favor of mass transportation...