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...Peak Period Passed...
There will be only one serving line in the Union for weekend meals, Fox said in the memorandum, adding "we expect it to be workable because unlike weekdays, there are no rush hours or peak load problems ...and the number of students taking meals during weekends is slightly lower...
...mistake can create a holocaust. The skies are filled with jumbo jets carrying hundreds of passengers. Closing speeds can reach 1,000 m.p.h. or more, making it difficult for humans to react quickly enough in the event of error. The congestion at major airports is so great at peak hours ?late Friday afternoon is especially bad?that air controllers have to order incoming jets to stack up at altitude intervals of 1,000 ft. The landing is a carefully choreographed minuet of the skies as the plane on the bottom of the stack is cleared to come...
...survey of 307 companies by Merrill Lynch Economics, Inc., a subsidiary of the nation's largest stockbroker, shows them planning to increase spending an average 16.3%. But, discounting for inflation of 5% to 6%, even the most bullish forecasts would not return "real" business spending to its 1974 peak levels. Says Chase Econometrics Associates President Michael Evans: "You can't get a boom out of that...
...Auberjonois). A debonair English visitor (Denholm Elliott), who is a lively connoisseur of filly flesh, helps the comedy peak to Feydeau-like farce...