Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Jackson, "black" may become equally obsolete. Jackson declared last week that citizens of his race should henceforth be known as African Americans. "There are Armenian Americans and Jewish Americans and Arab Americans and Italian Americans," he explained. "Every ethnic group in this country has reference to some land base, some historical cultural base. African Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity...
Airlines using hub-and-spoke route patterns have made Boeing's medium-range 737, which has a passenger capacity of 146, the best-selling airliner in history. More than 1,600 are now flown by 141 airlines, and 600 more are on order at a base price of $20 million each. For longer and more heavily traveled routes, carriers are buying twin-engine 757s, which cost about $40 million and carry as many as 220 passengers, and the larger 767s ($58 million). The big-money behemoth of the line is Boeing's 747 jumbo jet ($135 million), for which...
...other gadgets -- more instrumentation than the space shuttle contains. But the airlines are not the only ones who will have to wait in line for their new planes. So will President-elect Bush. The new Air Force One, a 747-200, will not arrive at Andrews Air Force Base until next November, a year behind schedule...
Support for PASOK, which won 46% of the vote in the 1985 national election, has plunged to 20% in Athens, half the popularity base of New Democracy, the rightist opposition party. Predicts Gerassimos Arsenis, a former PASOK economic minister: "This is the end of Papandreou. The recent scandals have finally helped to demythicize...
Although Elvis died eleven years ago, Graceland remains an active family affair. The 22-year-old singer bought the 13.8-acre estate from a Memphis physician for about $100,000 in 1957. From the first, it was a lively home base for the Presley clan. Elvis rode his horse down to the gates to chat with fans and had fireworks fights with his buddies and relatives on the lawn. Today, whether they knew him or not, everyone on Graceland's staff, which grows to 450 during the summer season, refers to the singer by his first name. Elvis' septuagenarian uncle...