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Word: airlinese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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About the least impressed person in town was Hill. Said he: "It's an honor, but it's not the first time I've had a leadership position that crossed racial lines." He is president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co., founded by an ex-slave in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Black Milepost | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

On Friday afternoon, a red, white and blue Texas International Airlines DC-9 took off from Mexico City carrying the first group of 61 transfers. Three hours later, when the pilot announced the jet was passing over the border, the cabin erupted with cheering and sobbing. At San Diego'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yankees Come Home | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

While the Concorde goes through a 16-month trial period of daily flights into Kennedy, both airlines are looking for other host cities. Last year British Airways lost $25 million and Air France $44 million operating their Concordes. To break even, BA would have to keep each of its five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Smooth Landing For the Birds | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Airlines and communications satellites foster the impression that the rest of the world is just around the corner. Many people derive cozy feelings from this notion of a shrinking globe. But in others, the concept gives rise to claustrophobia. They need a planet that still holds inaccessible places, both beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Well-Done Alaska | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

The growing reluctance to move has not been lost on the big corporations, which have always felt free to move their people with abandon. A Delta Airlines spokesman reports: "People are absolutely putting their foot down about being hauled out of a city." Polaroid says that applications for transfers abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Immobile Society | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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