Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine a major airline that seems to go out of its way to put its passengers in a blind rage: it routinely denies them assigned seats, refuses to transfer their baggage or arrange connections, and crams them three abreast into planes with only crackers and cookies to nibble. It sells no tickets through the industry's computerized reservations system and avoids flying to many large- city airports. As though to compensate for all this, its chief executive dresses in clown suits and Elvis costumes and paints his planes to resemble whales...
...Faculty tries to keep abreast of theUniversity financial situation, Knowles said. Lastyear, Treasurer L. Ronald Daniel and VicePresident for Finance Robert H. Scott visited theFaculty Council to discuss University finances...
City Hall has also been making an effort to keep public school students abreast of the rapidly changing meaning of the Columbus story. Cathy Hoffman, director of the city's Peace Commission, has been working with the city's Multicultural Education Committee to "challenge the notion of Columbus as hero" through curricula and student workshops...
...group, which will consist of seven students chosen by the executive board of the Law School Council, will meet on a monthly basis with the appointments committee in order to keep abreast of hiring developments and represent student views...
...fair: Murphy Brown has some good things going for it. One of the few comedies on TV that stay abreast of current events, it has the smarts and the moxie to take pokes at everything from gossip-mongering tabloids to the Anita Hill hearings. Its main character is a successful and independent career woman who isn't bitchy, ditsy or man crazy -- in other words, a feminist role model. It features some good '60s music...