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...discounting has become so frenzied and complex that even mainframe computers have trouble keeping the fares straight. Delta has more than 56,000 separate fares on the 2,700 routes it serves, and is working to untangle that price thicket. Western Air Lines, meanwhile, has simply given up. Chairman Neil Bergt has told ticket agents to match whatever fare a customer claims to be able to get else where, once a computer confirms that such a rate exists...
...fits snugly into the palm of the hand. Slide it across a table and electric signals go down its 2-ft. tail. Plug that tail into a computer, and the mouse directs the movement of a pointer on a video screen. The result: a device that can bypass the thicket of codes, commands and complicated keyboards that have plagued users since the computer era began...
...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
...addition to sending out signals that foreign investment is welcome, New Delhi officials are trying to trim the thicket of regulation and bureaucracy that has often thwarted outside businessmen in the past. Firms, for example, can now automatically get government approval to increase their production capacity by up to 33%. Previously, they often had to wait several years for such permission...
...that time of the year again. Some 96 million Americans fuss, cuss and struggle with sheaves of tax forms covered by a barely penetrable typographic thicket. If the amount on line 54 of form 1040 is larger than on line 62, the citizen must pay the balance to help the Federal Government establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty. Taxes are unavoidable, but is the thicket...