Word: aircraft
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Instead, the major carriers can see something potentially distressing: a swarm of alien aircraft invading the domestic market. These planes belong to the latest wave of upstart airlines hoping to succeed where so many predecessors--161 in the 18 years since deregulation--have plowed under. During that time, the economics of the industry has been tossed around like so much paper in jetwash. And airfares have followed suit. Prices have taken off in "fortress" markets like Denver, where one or two majors have pounded competitors; in California, where the terminals are more crowded, the fares have sunk low enough...
Just after 3 p.m., the plane suddenly disappeared from the radar screens in the Dubrovnik control tower. It was more than four hours before the truth emerged: the aircraft had slammed into a rocky hilltop nearly two miles from the airport. With the exception of a fatally injured flight attendant who died on the helicopter ride to a nearby hospital, every passenger was dead by the time Croatian rescue teams reached the site of the crash...
Corporations, skilled at negotiating the price of everything from toilet paper to aircraft, can play states off against one another, as the two commodity exchanges did. Martha Hunt, president of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, contends that her state has no choice but to play the game. Says she: "Our neighbors would pick our industrial base dry if we sat on our hands and did nothing...
...WEEK OF TERRORIST VIOLENCE IN the Middle East, the downing of two American aircraft by Cuba and continuing turmoil over the Republican nomination for President, you chose to run a cover on that never-ending soap opera known as Charles and Diana. This story should long ago have been relegated to the gossip columns to be read by people with nothing better to do. LARRY WANGER London, Ontario...
...PILOT SHOWN IN THE PHOTOgraph of a Brothers to the Rescue plane that accompanied your article on the aftermath of the Cuban shoot-down of civilian aircraft [WORLD, March 11]. That American citizens were murdered in international airspace is a fact. Castro claims the U.S. would never tolerate intrusions into its airspace, but here you don't have to fly over Washington to distribute leaflets. You can stand on a corner and freely hand them out. STEPHEN L. WALTON Hollywood, Florida