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What makes a network so vital to the airlines is its ability to arrange a dizzying permutation of planes, routes and available seats in the most profitable configuration possible. Each day, 600,000 fares change in the airline industry, which high-speed computers can constantly update to help an airline allocate seats. Without the computer systems, for example, airline managers might fill planes with passengers flying free on frequent-flyer coupons when at least some seats could be sold to business travelers at full fare...
Getting large numbers of nations to agree on anything, especially delicate policy issues, is no easy job. But now that scientists have convinced policymakers that the earth's ozone layer is in grave danger, governments are moving with unusual speed and resolve. Meeting in Helsinki last week, representatives from 86 countries said they favored a total ban on certain chlorofluorocarbons, man-made chemicals believed to be destroying the ozone, / by the end of the century at the latest. That goes far beyond the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% cut in CFC manufacture...
...certainly fast. The car has a top speed of 180 m.p.h. and can go from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in a blistering 4.2 sec., making it the fastest factory-built car in the world. Moreover, the Corvette more than holds its own in road- hugging tests against the $75,000 Porsche 928GT and the $180,000 Ferrari Testarossa...
...cylinder, and an innovative air-intake system that can sip oxygen from a single narrow throttle valve or suck it full blast from a wide-mouth intake, depending on how sharply the driver presses the pedal to the metal. Other high-tech bells and whistles include a slick six-speed computer-assisted manual transmission and a suspension system that automatically adjusts shock absorbers to the speed...
Even the Soviet air force is getting into the act. Last week TASS reported that 60 military planes have been commissioned to speed produce from the southern farm belt to major cities. Said Colonel General Vyacheslav Yefanov, chief of Military Transport Aviation: "Combat readiness will by no means be reduced." But the long lines at the grocery store...