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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Private roads (and airports)
Message-ID: <351@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 22:52:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 22:52:59 1986
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Reply-To: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
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In article <27@calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
>> Really?  I think you will find that a majority of the U.S. population has
>> flown; I would guess an overwhelming majority.
>
>Really? I would guess that even today maybe 30% haven't flown. One of us
>will have to actually do work looking up statistics to resolve this one...

Pray tell, what do you define an overwhelming majority to be?  I ran
across the figure in question in the recent *Time* cover story about
the current air travel price war, where they reported that 70% of
Americans have now flown.  So, your estimate of 30% *not* having
flown appears to be correct.  I would say, though, that 70% is quite a
substantial majority -- not what one would ordinarily call an "elite."  

-- 

Michael McNeil
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