Word: summers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with your best friends -- how much you earn. Well, in California that nugget of personal information could soon be up for sale to banks, mortgage lenders, car dealers and other potential creditors -- by none other than the government. The program, authorized by a little-noticed state law passed last summer, and headlined by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, could eventually rake $15 million into state coffers. "When the news leaked out," reports TIME Los Angeles correspondent Dave Jackson, "it caused an immediate backlash here." Proponents of the program point out that individuals would have to give their consent before...
...Gore -- especially since she doesn't even have an opponent yet. It also doesn't hurt that as long as she's undeclared, she can take Manhattan in Air Force One and do all her pre-campaign campaigning on the U.S. taxpayers' dime. Get ready for a long, coy summer...
Exactly six weeks after the halls of Columbine High echoed with screams, it was time for the mundanities of survival as students and teachers alike took a day out of summer Tuesday to pick up the things they had left behind. Backpacks, long since checked for pipe bombs, still lay in front of lockers; car keys still sat in desk drawers. Almost everyone had something to come back for, and all of them had something to see and remember: the closet where they had hidden, the classroom where they had huddled and prayed, the parking lot where it all began...
Just in time for the summer travel season: higher air fares. Four major carriers -- Continental, American, Northwest and U.S. Airways -- announced a 4 percent hike in their standard domestic leisure rates over the Memorial Day weekend. If, as expected, other carriers follow suit, this third raise for 1999 will zoom fares to an 11 percent increase for the year. It?s a function of classic demand in the midst of a booming economy, says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl: "Airlines are experiencing record high traffic by passengers, which has been pumped up by low unemployment, consumer confidence...
With studies showing that 13 percent of Americans plan to travel to their vacations by air this summer -- a 3 percent increase over last year -- airlines have little incentive to discount. Still, there may be some relief before the year is out. "If past airline patterns hold true, one or two of the major carriers will eventually break with the pack and lower fares to get a competitive edge, prompting the others to follow," says Baumohl. The only question -- whose answer will probably come too late for most vacationers -- is when that will happen. So until further notice, make sure...