Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caitlin E. Anderson, Christopher T. Boyd, Tara L. Colon, Jenny E. Heller, Rosalind S. Helderman, Lisa B. Keyfetz, Caille M. Millner, Nicholas A. Nash, Jacqueline A. Newmyer and Laura L. Tarter contributed to the reporting of this story...
...that barrier is crumbling under the weight of economics and consumer preference: nearly 200 jets are on order, and by the year 2002 they will replace more than 75% of the turboprops. "There's a rapidly developing dynamic," says Mike Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research, an aviation-consulting firm. "In the next few years, megacarrier systems--Delta, United and American--will be stampeding to take turboprops out of the system and replace them with jets." Indeed, American's pilots recently agreed to allow the company to buy as many as 67 regional jets...
...church leaders' misrepresentation of some continued polygamy in the early 1900s. The current crackdown, some analysts believe, stems from fears of loss of control as the church becomes more international. Most think it will get worse if, as is likely, the church's hard-line No. 3 man, Boyd Packer, someday becomes President. Some wonder how the strict Mormon sense of hierarchy, along with the church's male-centered, white-dominated and abstemious nature, will play as the faith continues to spread past the naturally conservative mountain states...
...better place. Mayor Whelan insists that other roadway routes would have displaced even more homeowners. He's sorry about Bryant Drive, but if Atlantic City doesn't take this next step--"Not just another casino, but an 'Oh, wow!' destination resort"--it will die. He says Circus Circus and Boyd Gaming may build next to Mirage's planned Le Jardin, which will resemble a gigantic terrarium...
...here, is decent, ordinary and a bit slow. Not a good match, the reader feels, for the shrewd Virgil of the next section, who reluctantly accepts the stony verdict of his family and acquaintances, including the local sheriff, that he must kill the man who murdered his wild brother Boyd. The author does his impressive best to make this believable, writing a drunk scene in which Virgil sprawls on his back in the night woods and stares at the Milky Way. Virgil sobers up and, as efficiently as a spy-story villain, creates an elaborate false identity for himself, kills...