Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other airlines followed suit, although at week's end Midway | and Southwest Airlines were still resisting the increases and Eastern had raised only some of its fares. Many airlines have consolidated their market share in recent years by buying smaller companies and aggressively cutting prices. Now, with air traffic up a surprising 8% last month over a year ago, the carriers are testing to see whether rising demand can withstand higher prices...
Above all, working for Maxwell is an exercise in survival. His eight-member personal staff, plus two pilots and two chauffeurs, operates like a team of air-traffic controllers. All carry beepers and many have walkie-talkies and cellular phones to track the "Black Hurricane," as some call him. "He plays the fox and rabbit with people," says an employee. "If he smells a rabbit, he goes for it." Not that Maxwell spares himself. The tenets of Maxwellian management call for living over the shop, working 24 hours a day, hiring and firing often, trusting only family members and centralizing...
Jackie was helped into the white hearse to ride with Kennedy's body to Air Force One. Everything about the scene was small and colorless -- casket salesman, disheveled reporters, unpainted concrete, exhaust fumes, arguing police and security men, traffic grinding by on a freeway...
Barges and ferryboats float along one side while automobile traffic skitters by on the other. Just past Grant's Tomb on the Hudson it looms: seven city blocks of arched white concrete with miles of pretzeling pipes and a sprouting of cylindrical smokestacks. This is the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, processor for a billion gallons of sewage a week and a monument in its own right. For decades, pols, bureaucrats and engineers here tangled over how to deal with so many people flushing and washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mary Dunn (Deputy Picture Editor); Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Julia Richer (Assistant Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Traffic); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Polly J. Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, P. F. Bentley, William Campbell, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David...