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...rise of People and other low-cost carriers has helped air travel grow at a jet-stream pace. During 1984, close to 400 million passengers climbed aboard scheduled flights, a more than 10% increase over 1983. In 1985, traffic for the first nine months was up nearly 11% from the same period the year before. Many of the flyers are first-timers. The percentage of American adults who have flown at least once is up to 70%, from 65% in 1979. Pleasure travel is growing especially fast. Business trips now account for only 50% of all passengers, down from...
...President Reagan fired strikers in 1981. Of those now employed, only 57% are considered fully qualified, as compared with 82% who held that rating before the strike. One possible result: the number of near misses between aircraft reached a record 592 in 1984, and grew at an even faster pace during the first five months of last year. Reacting to pressure from Congress, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole has agreed to add nearly 1,000 new controllers during the next two years...
Some combination of measures seems needed, and fast. Anything that affects matters ranging from the pace of oil exploration to the availability of slides in Chicago playgrounds must be taken very seriously. The nation, once proud of its frontier individualism, has gradually adopted a no-risk mentality based on the belief that if anything bad happens, someone should be made to pay. But as damage awards lose any connection to actual damages and insurance companies flail around anxiously, that someone is turning out to be everyone. --By George J. Church. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington, B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta and Michael Riley/Los...
Bullishness was busting out all over. Nearly everyone from consumers to financiers was celebrating the belief that the 40-month-old economic recovery, which had slowed late last year to a 1.2% annual growth rate, is accelerating to a faster pace of 3% or more. Even better, many experts think the industrial world's economies are entering a new era, in which low oil prices are triggering a whole series of positive trends, thus creating a boom machine that could hum smoothly for several years...
...pace has been so rapid that schedules of major groups, which are usually established long in advance, have been altered and expanded almost overnight. The Kirov, for example, had already been scheduled to perform at Vancouver's Expo 86 this month. When the good news arrived from Geneva, the company was able to add Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Wolf Trap in Virginia to its schedule. Unfortunately, the appropriate houses in Manhattan--dance capital of the world--were unavailable on such short notice, and New York dance lovers will have to put on their traveling shoes to see a company that...