Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Passengers were concerned as well. Not long ago, they were focusing their airborne anxiety on such problems as crowded skies, rookie pilots and overstressed controllers. Now they have a new concern: the soundness of the jets. Are some planes too old? Are others sent aloft with known malfunctions? The financial competitiveness wrought by deregulation has raised suspicions, deserved or not, that some carriers may be courting disaster by skimping on maintenance and diligence...
...composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1981), a theater piece for percussionists, soprano and conductor that apes a funeral procession, ending with a solemn cortege in which the vibraphone is held aloft like a coffin...
...better. Having nibbled on a fatal Korean chicken dumpling, Lucy finds herself dying on an emergency ward table. After a year of experimenting with spells and incantations Zelda (Judith Ivey), her clairvoyant sister, somehow manages to resurrect her from the grave. Lucy returns only to find Jason aloft in a slick Manhattan high rise in bed with his new wife. And with that cold realization. Lucy puts Jason behind her and embarks on a new life...
...economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured out of thin air by fresh- faced traders who created nothing more than paper -- gilded castles in the sky held aloft by red suspenders...
Every presidential election is shaped by a handful of events that resonate with the electorate. Last week's wild-on-the-Street gyrations of the stock market are likely to become just such a political symbol, playing on voter fears that the economy has been held aloft by illusion. As Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin puts it, "We've seen over and over again in focus groups that people have had a sense of huge bills coming due, with no one knowing how to pay them." The market collapse, he argues, "becomes a defining event for 1988, because the potential...