Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...either were acquired or went out of business. The remaining survivor, America West, is emerging from bankruptcy. Will history repeat itself? Most observers think not. While the new carriers face uncertain skies ahead, analysts expect that at least a third of the upstarts will be able to stay aloft, thanks in large part to more protective regulators and trails blazed by their predecessors. "These new start-ups are a lot smarter and wiser because they've learned from our mistakes," says Donald Burr, founder of People Express, who is considering making a comeback...
...with accusations of graft. The anticipated federal deficit was -- are you ready? -- $180 million and, according to Washington -- ready again? -- soon would be wiped out. The government reported that the U.S. (pop. 111,947,000) had 10 million registered passenger cars and 20,550,000 horses. A helicopter stayed aloft at 15 feet for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Southern blacks, hounded by poverty and a rampaging Ku Klux Klan, were moving to the North in large numbers...
TECHNOLOGY: Hazards Aloft...
Come 10:58 p.m., the few hundred Crimson faithful (the other some 14,000 were BU fans) saw a sight for all time. Drury, grinning his best selfeffacing smile, lifted the 'Pot aloft. Then came sophomore Ben Coughlin, Body, Martins. And on it went, from hand to hand, each face grimy with sweat but lit up with smiles...
...without question, the Crimson, ranked second in the nation, is the decided favorite to hold the `Pot aloft come February...