Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pilot Paul Boucher took off in a Beechcraft 99 commuter plane from Portland, Me., without any passengers -- and seemingly without the rear door securely fastened. When Dempsey went back to close it, the plane ran into turbulence, and he was tossed against the door. Hinged at the bottom, it swung down, and Dempsey fell forward with it. He clung to the door, head down, with only his legs inside the aircraft...
America's yachting heyday was in the early 20th century, when wealthy industrialists competed in creating elaborate waterborne palaces. Over the years, buying, building and chartering of yachts remained small and select, and in the late '70s, business hit bottom. Today the number of American-owned jumbos, over 100 ft. from stem to stern, is increasing from 80 in 1986 to 129, with the launch of 49 new yachts now under construction. More remarkable is that 33 of these yachts will be products of U.S. yards, rather than foreign competitors. Jumbo yachts sport a hefty price tag, ranging from...
...force is the old familiar one of want. Back then President Franklin Roosevelt was an ethereal radio voice so far removed from the people at the bottom of the Depression that there was no thought of ever being directly touched by the presidency. But the world moved. The dawn patrol went off to real war. Postwar prosperity banished the hollyhocks and the clapboard house in favor of a red tile farm-implement garage, which succumbed to modern recession, only to be replaced by a Sears catalog store, which gave way to even harder times...
...into a telegram or note saying 'Phone me tonight.' That's when you feel the impact of the telephone right in your gut." In researching L.B.J.'s role in the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill, Caro says he has been reduced to deciphering scrawls at the bottom of telephone-message slips...
Already hassled, harangued and humiliated because one of its subsidiaries was caught making illegal sales of high-tech equipment to the Soviet Union, Japan's Toshiba last week suffered the first major blow to its bottom line. The Pentagon spurned Toshiba and awarded a $104 million contract for 90,000 laptop computers to rival bidder Zenith Electronics. The Glenview, Ill., company, which is already a large Government supplier, might have won the contract anyway, but Toshiba's new notoriety nullified whatever chance the Japanese company...