Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first red ink in 50 years--and to report a 90% drop in profits for the first quarter of 1998. The problem: shortages of parts and a production system that could not keep up with the largest surge of new orders in the history of the jet age...
...could this happen to the company that virtually invented the jet age? After all, Boeing has built no less than 55% of all the jetliners in service today. That figure climbs to 77% with the addition of planes from McDonnell Douglas, which Boeing acquired last year for $16.3 billion...
...course, is a picture of careless and fluid engineering. He doesn't even look at the ball (I didn't either at his age). It is just there in his hands, and then it's gone again. We go back and forth in an essential gesture of sports. A ball travels between two people, each seeking a moment of understanding from the other, across the yard and the years. To play a game of catch is not like pitching to a batter. You do not throw to trick, confuse or evade; you want to be understood...
...there is no ghoulish sentiment in the rarefied pleasures afforded by Manoel de Oliveira's luminous film. The Franco-Portuguese Voyage to the Beginning of the World is a fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny. Two histories intertwine: a veteran director, also named Manoel (Mastroianni), goes back to the places of his childhood; and an ancient Portuguese woman (Isabel de Castro) meets the French-born son (Jean-Yves Gautier) of her long-lost brother. The old woman is wary of her Francophone nephew--she keeps asking, "Why doesn't he speak our speech?"--until the nephew...
...hand over power in October -- if they think the military is entrenching itself, they'll try and make the country ungovernable. Right now, it's anybody's guess what the military is planning." In a country where the two most important politicians suddenly expire of natural causes at age 60, anything seems possible...