Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reservation systems linking them with at least 20,000 U.S. travel agents. The systems allowed the airlines to launch myriad discounts, usually on advance purchases with high (as much as 50%) penalties for failure to show up for the seat. For its part, People operated more like a mass-transit company. It offered two cheap daily fares--peak and off-peak--to most destinations, sold few tickets in advance and frequently overbooked its seats. Later this summer People will finally insert its flight schedule into the sophisticated computer networks managed by American and United...
...magic monorail, "thank you so much for bringing me here!" The boy's father must have wondered what he or Walt Disney Co. could do for an encore. The family's vacationland adventure had just begun; in fact, they were still at Orlando International Airport, in transit from the arrivals lounge to baggage claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured by the long lines, infant attention spans and high technology on the fritz. Standing at the entrance to Orlando's Sea World, another father tried...
...nearby Lesotho, Botswana and Mozambique. Last week, in the widest-ranging action yet launched against its neighbors, South Africa's armed forces staged virtually simultaneous attacks in the capital cities of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The targets, according to a subsequent South African announcement, were operational bases and transit facilities of the exiled, outlawed African National Congress, which the government of State President P.W. Botha regards as a terrorist organization and black Africa considers a liberation movement...
Highway programs would be cut 5 percent in the House plan, and mass transit cut 10 percent. Amtrak, however, would have its budget slightly increased...
Last week Wallace's wheelchair was pushed into the old state house of representatives chamber. Fighting tears, Wallace spoke in a thin, pained voice. He talked about the Wallace era, about the long transit that Alabama made from the Depression to the Sunbelt. Wallace glancingly compared himself to Peter the Great and the apostle Paul. He announced that, at age 66, he will not run again for Governor. The long drama of his career will end. And so, symbolically, will...