Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next week at Dartmouth, the pressure will be back on and competition will be a lot stronger. With many more individual victories than usual, the team will travel to Hanover on Friday with plenty of confidence that they know...
EVERY THREE MONTHS, Rose Muchway, who is sixtysomething, and her husband Earl, seventysomething, travel more than 800 miles from their home north of Eureka, California, to Los Algodones, Mexico. They go not because they are particularly fond of the tiny border town (pop. 5,000), but because Rose suffers from asthma and is dependent on inhalers that cost $83.70 each at her local pharmacy. In Los Algodones she can pick them...
There has always been a trickle of Americans who have exploited such price differentials. In the past, however, the crowds were smaller and younger. Now the crush consists largely of seniors who have the time to travel and the incentive to save. There are 36 million elderly Americans, and many are being squeezed between rising drug costs (which have jumped as much as 50% for the most popular prescriptions in the past five years) and the limits of Medicare (which does not reimburse for medication). After making a few calculations to factor in the cost of lodging and gasoline, they...
...near misses accrue, however, fewer and fewer air controllers buy this party line. They warn that safe air travel is being compromised by obsolescent equipment, reckless penny pinching and severe staffing cuts that have eliminated 2,000 controller positions since 1982, even as air traffic has soared 35%. Says Gus Guerra, a California controller: "It's almost as though they're waiting for a midair collision where we lose hundreds of lives before they finally see the big light bulb...
More than ever, many of the most outstanding students across the country and abroad are ready to apply to college early in their senior year. This acceleration of the timetable for making college choices has been one factor that has led us to increase our spring travel, and we will continue to make necessary changes to ensure that Harvard and Radcliffe will be prominent in students thinking as they make their decisions...