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And with less demand, airlines naturally lowered prices — despite their initial hopes for a strong month, especially because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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That’s because surveys that track pricing for the base or lowest fare don’t take into account the fact that travelers often pay for perks and extras beyond that bottom fare.
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Behind her back, the other matrons make snarky remarks about her while sipping her tea; we learn all this because we share Millie’s point of view and the moms speak freely in front of her.
In turn, on Jan. 10, 1861, days before he left Congress to become the Confederacy’s president, Jefferson Davis argued that “if our Government should fail,” it would be because the North had “disturbed these planets in their orbit; it is this which threatens to destroy the constellation which, in its power and its glory, had been gathering stars one after another.”
This made eminent sense, the FBI email explains, because the attorney had already complied with a Justice Department demand to padlock a storage-room door, when he had also been told by the DOJ to await “further instructions.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
