Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three winners of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (DDRA) will soon depart Harvard for a year of intensive study and travel abroad...
...year-long fellowship awards an average of $16,000 for travel and research-related expenses and health and accident insurance premiums...
Because new airports are financed by gate fees, airlines have sometimes been reluctant to support them -- the added cost would mean higher fares or squeezed profits. But the major carriers have formed a lobbying group, Partnership for Improved Air Travel, which among other things is urging the Government to lead an airport-building program similar to the interstate- highway push...
Breaking gridlock will take all the ingenuity the U.S. can muster, especially in a time when the nation cannot afford to buy millions of yards of concrete to pave over the problem. Says Burnley: "Because we are a free country, people are able to change their travel patterns overnight. So the challenge is to be able to think more creatively." But meanwhile, taxpayers and travelers will have to shoulder the cost for a prudent amount of highway patching and airport building. The longer such work is postponed, the more chronic the gridlock will become. If America still hungers to move...
Because of its central location, Chicago's O'Hare is the busiest and most congested air-travel crossroads on the continent. Serving as a hub for the two largest U.S. carriers, United and American airlines, O'Hare is expected to handle about 57 million passengers and 800,000 flights this year. At peak periods air-traffic controllers direct up to 210 takeoffs and landings an hour. The airport, once an apple orchard (hence the call letters ORD), is functioning at 96% of capacity and has no room to expand because suburbs surround it. Yet air traffic is still growing...