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Because senior faculty are asked to evaluate candidates for tenure around the country, to travel and speak at conferences and to sit on other universities' ad hoc committees, the amount of time they spend doing service work is considerably more than what junior faculty spend, Vendler asserts...
...travel-agency business has grown heavily dependent on reservation systems and the airlines that own them, often at the expense of carriers without their own computers. Nearly 87% of all flights are now booked through the carriers with computerized networks, compared with 61% in 1983. The most dominant system is American's SABRE (an acronym for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment), used by 14,000 agencies to keep up with some 45 million different fares at 281 airlines. United's Apollo, the second largest, is used by 10,000 agencies. Last year the SABRE system brought American profits...
...what is peculiar to American Samoa, one need travel only 40 miles across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea-lapping cadences of the South Pacific; in American, they favor the twang of Beach Boys and Valley Girls. In Western, residents play the genteel old colonial game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American...
...summer travel season gets under way, many Americans are suddenly feeling nostalgic for the airfares they paid just a vacation or two ago. Since January, ticket prices have risen an average of more than 15%, inducing a form of sticker shock in consumers who have grown accustomed to deep discounts in the decade since airline deregulation. But the kind of cutthroat competition that produced those fares is fading fast. After a severe shake-out in which some 214 airlines disappeared or merged into hardier carriers, the industry is concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. Gone from the runways...
...opposing new airport construction because the additional gates would bring new competition. "Obviously, we've got fewer players in the airline industry. That's what makes everybody concerned about the future," says Skinner. "I don't want to go back to the time when only the rich could travel by air." If airline prices keep heading north, however, growing numbers of the nonrich may find themselves grounded...