Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost 80 cents or more per gal. Now some companies are buying it for 55 cents. Says Joseph Hopkins, a spokesman for Chicago-based United Airlines, which alone saves $20 million a year for every 1 cents fuel-price reduction: "We can take quick advantage of price breaks." Donald Burr, chairman of Newark-based People Express, now the fifth largest U.S. carrier, says that his company is getting "terrific savings." In the first quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge may not result in lower air-fares...
...with reason and beauty. We will hang traitors and hang people who are responsible for feeding our children drugs . . ." There was more: "He (LaRouche) will put the fear of God in people like Henry Kissinger and the State Department, the biggest hotbed of treason in this nation since Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton...
Return to Mayberry is the latest example of time-warp television: vintage shows that, after a decade or two in rerunland, have returned as new TV movies. Raymond Burr was back grilling witnesses in last December's Perry Mason Returns. Kung Fu, the early '70s hit starring David Carradine as an Eastern mystic in the American West, resurfaced as a CBS movie early in February. Kojak, Peyton Place and I Dream of Jeannie are among the other series that have been resurrected in the past year...
...Burr said he did not want any misunderstanding about the new arrangement after hospital staff members two years ago protested the proposed sale of McLean to the Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America...
...part because of McLean's need for increased revenues, Burr and other trustees in 1983 had entertained a sale to HCA, one of the world's largest health care organizations. But strong faculty opposition to the move convinced the directors to turn HCA investors away...