Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, the China Trade Center, which housesover a dozen Asian-American-owned businesses,ranging from barber shops to travel agencies,sticks out as the only modern office structure ina stretch of graffiti-covered, run-down buildings...
...become the "preferred method of ticketing" because all one needs is a destination in mind, a credit card in hand and a computer at your fingertips. To purchase an E-ticket, a customer logs onto an on-line reservation service, selects the departure city, destination city and date of travel and then types his or her credit card number onto an encrypted web page. The E-ticket becomes reserved in the customer's name, and all he or she has to do is to head on over to the airport, walk up to the departure gate and request the ticket...
However, Roberta Saltzberg of Great Escape Travel in Cambridge says there are many potential drawbacks to E-ticketing. According to Saltzberg, one disadvantage lies in the public's lack of familiarity with E-ticketing. "Most people seem to feel more secure with a ticket in their hand," she says...
...representative of EAAsy Sabre, the on-line service of American Airlines, who asked to remain anonymous, would beg to differ. The representative says thatEAAsy Sabre on average saves customers more moneythan travel agencies. But Saltzberg says it is anunfair comparison because travel agencies "can doin two minutes what takes you an hour...
...quality of applicants, and each entering class challenges the previous ones for preeminence. The Admissions Office, over 6,000 alumni and alumnae volunteers and our undergraduate student recruiters have worked exceeding hard, using recruitment efforts that were unimagined a quarter century ago. The use of direct mail, cooperative travel with other colleges, and vastly expanded spring travel to communicate with the many juniors who are near the final stages of choosing a college (not beginning the process as with previous generations) are now a necessary part of a responsive and vital admissions outreach program. It is unlikely there will soon...