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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other businesses are getting in on the game as well. Some banks, including New York City's Citicorp, arrange for their Visa and MasterCard holders to receive frequent-flyer mileage every time they use their credit cards. The variations on this strategy are potentially unlimited. Members of TWA's frequent-flyer plan can chalk up mileage by buying Glad trash bags...
...keep their choice flights open to more paying passengers, many carriers encourage frequent flyers to use their travel bonuses during off-peak periods. An unrestricted Eastern or Continental round-trip ticket to Hawaii normally costs 50,000 miles. During off-peak seasons in the fall and late spring, the same trip can be had for 30,000 miles. At American, travelers can fly economy class to Europe for 90,000 miles. But off-peak the same trip costs 60,000 miles...
...travelers is the specter of the Internal Revenue Service going after frequent-flyer programs. The IRS is studying the possibility of taxing free airline tickets as income. While a ruling is not expected before next year, passengers who have stashed away substantial mileage are understandably concerned and may use their bonuses soon. The airlines, on the other hand, have a reason to welcome IRS intervention. If imposing taxes on the bonuses cuts down on their use, then the frequent-flyer plans would no longer be such a dire threat to the carriers' bottom lines...
Rome was able to cover the huge 1986 shortfall by using the full $32 million from the "St. Peter's Pence" collection, taken in parishes around the world to support the papacy. Also applied was $24.7 million that had been held over from previous Pence collections, nearly wiping out those reserves. The deficit would have been worse if Rome had not dipped into endowments for $3.5 million. What resources the Holy See will use to cope with the 1987 deficit have not been revealed...
...Minister for 28 years until taking the mostly ceremonial post of President in 1985, is allowing a rare insight into his thoughts. In Pamyatnoye (Remembrance), a two-volume, 850-page autobiography that is on sale in Moscow, Gromyko describes, among other things, the late Mao Zedong's proposal to use nuclear weapons against U.S. troops -- and his own brief infatuation with Marilyn Monroe...