Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book has any value, it is in raising a number of serious and worthwhile questions: To what extent did past Presidents overreach their authority? Were their violations in any way comparable to the excesses of Nixon? Did much of the U.S. press judge Nixon by a tougher standard than it had applied to his predecessors...
...upstart Laker Airways. Within the U.S., airlines have been announcing a profusion of cheap fares since last April; that was when American Airlines set off the bargain binge by offering advance-booked coast-to-coast flights at a "supersaver" round-trip fare of $231, which is 45% under the standard economy rate. Other carriers have spurred further price competition with bargains of their...
Many major airlines view the trend away from standard fixed fares with varying degrees of horror and resignation. The airlines are at last making money again: having lost by one estimate $94 million as recently as 1975, the major carriers could collectively earn a record $500 million this year, thanks partly to a post-recession upturn in air travel. But bargain plans will almost always have a "modestly negative" impact on earnings, insists Theodore Shen, airline analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. So why are the airlines slashing fares...
...thought they would, and then go up to their eaves in debt. In some pleasant but by no means luxurious residential areas of the Northeast, Midwest and West, even $50,000 to $60,000 houses are almost nonexistent, while dwellings of $75,000 to $85,000?and up?are standard. The prices for new houses in June averaged $62,100 around Chicago, $67,700 in the Washington, D.C., area, and $72,100 around Los Angeles...
...Hilda Madsen is the grand dame of Newfoundland dog breeders. For more than 20 years, her kennels have produced dogs that embody the standard for the breed: big (28 in. high, 120 lbs. to 150 lbs.), strong-boned and richly coated. In 1968, she paraded three Newfoundlands before the tuxedoed judges at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York and walked out of the ring with three winners-a rare triple in the nation's most prestigious show. But Hilda Madsen is also a revolutionary. She is one of a growing number of dog breeders seeking to rewrite...