Word: boon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Baltimore's urban-renewal program has concentrated from the start on the city's seediest areas, the Block has traditionally been regarded as more of a boon than a blight. Like New Orleans' French Quarter, it attracts hordes of free-spending tourists-and offers them a wider range of distractions. However, Baltimore's new city planner, Larry Reich, doubts its worth. "I'm convinced the Block isn't that much of an entertainment value for the city," he says. "I really think it has become an obsolete, tawdry thing of the past." Reich...
...only owners and managers but millions of stockholders and employees as well. In time, their expanding takeovers of hundreds of companies could transform the entire structure of the U.S. economy. Already, they have stirred intense debate among businessmen and Government officials alike: Are their actions a threat or a boon to U.S. business...
...travelers in a hurry, Eastern Air Lines' hourly "air shuttle" has been a boon from its inception eight years ago. The service, which links New York-Newark with both Washington and Boston, guarantees passengers a seat even if they show up at the last minute. When passengers fill one of the jet planes to capacity, Eastern simply rolls out a second-section backup craft-usually a propjet Electra-to handle any overflow. The shuttle drew 3,200,000 passengers in 1968. But Eastern last week advised the Federal Aviation Administration that "the life of this service...
...committee specifically hailed the extension of the length of the period during which the form must be returned as "a great boon for applicants who need to collect supporting letters from scattered references, or who have not worked out their answers in advance of requesting the form...
...Broadway musicals offer a boon to the tired businessman - sleep...