Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airlines cite overworked air-traffic controllers and bad weather as reasons for delays. But the carriers bear much of the blame because they routinely bunch too many flights into the most popular travel times, thus creating what might be called winglock on the runways. As one remedy, Secretary Dole suspended antitrust rules in March to allow airline executives to sit down together and arrange their schedules for more realistic departure times. American Airlines, for example, has rescheduled 1,537 of its 1,600 flights and added 150 hours a day of flight time to its timetables...
...spends seven hours a day in the home of another mother. Theriot toured a dozen such facilities before selecting one. "I can't even tell you what I found out there," she bristles. In one home the "kids were all lined up in front of the TV like a bunch of zombies." At another she was appalled by the filth. "I sat my girl down on the cleanest spot I could find and started interviewing the care giver. And you know what she did?" asks the incredulous mother. "She began throwing empty yogurt cups at my child's head...
They are, on the face of it, a rather conventional bunch, not greatly distinguished by sex appeal or intelligence or wit. Movie stars have glamour at least, and champion athletes grace. But what do the ruling Windsors of Britain have above and beyond their right to rule? This week, as Queen Elizabeth marks her official birthday, one may well feel justified in asking what divine right inheres in her -- an almost powerless figurehead in a country now past its prime -- to command the attention of the world, let alone its enthralled admiration...
Buried in his sunless cubicle with his cot, his toilet and his TV, Edwin Wilson seethes, "It is to this bunch of sharks that Ollie North tied himself." If North and others in the Government are sincere in their claims of patriotic motives for their selling arms to a terrorist nation like Iran, says Wilson, then they are victims of "unscrupulous people whose only allegiance was to money." But Wilson does not believe the patriotic pieties he hears on television from the likes of Secord. Says the prisoner: "If I'm guilty, they're guilty. If I got 52 years...
...team had no superstars, just a bunch of gung-ho overachievers; the other boasted a troika of standouts--one on offense, one on defense and one guarding the goal mouth...