Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...load the missiles onto a new, as yet undesigned generation of large, slow aircraft, dubbed "Big Bird," which would carry the MX aloft on permanent patrol and launch it in midair...
...Manhattan headquarters for $400 million, and in August it got an additional $500 million for its profitable chain of 97 Intercontinental Hotels. In another attempt to stay aloft, Pan Am last week slashed its domestic fares by up to 68%. The move may be futile, though, because other airlines quickly followed Pan Am, setting off a new price war in the skies...
...stocked gift shop, and peeks in on a shop crammed with antique postcards. He exchanges a few joky words with Anthony Hawkins, the 36-year-old black manager of Harborplace. At the Kite Loft, Rouse pays $1.95 for a "puddle jumper," a wooden propeller on a stick that whirls aloft and settles gently into the harbor. Rouse is pleased to note that on a busy weekday, the pavilion is spotless...
...gasoline and jet-aviation fuel. Air carriers are a primary market for companies as diverse as Boeing Co. of Seattle, the world's leading maker of commercial aircraft, and Marriott Corp. of Washington, B.C., a hotel, entertainment and food services company that daily provided approximately 180,000 meals aloft before the strike. Airlines may be more dependent upon computers and data-processing equipment than any other private sector of the U.S. economy outside of banking and finance...
...Once aloft, Moezi veered from the flight plan he had filed and headed west. The plane was actually over Turkey when it was caught by three Iranian Phantom jets. The fighter pilots radioed threats to shoot down the tanker but did not fire. One likely explanation: the fighter pilots' great respect for Moezi himself. Says Rajavi: "Had it been any other pilot than Moezi, we would have died...