Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ridership has declined sharply with the growth of car ownership and the burgeoning popularity of air travel. The toughest blow came in 1978, when deregulation of the airline industry spawned a fleet of cut-rate carriers. On some routes plane fares became as cheap as bus tickets. It was no surprise, then, that between 1980 and 1985 total intercity bus travel dropped by 29%, from 27.4 billion passenger miles to 19.5 billion...
...officials fear that Europe is popular now only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...
...fast lane of a Los Angeles freeway, a Randy Travis song on the car radio can put you, all at once, onto a stretch of two-lane blacktop. A tune like On the Other Hand or What'll You Do About Me can turn a city singles bar into a state-route sugar shack. If there is a new spirit in country, just about the friendliest place to get acquainted with it is on the tracks of Travis' fine new album, Always & Forever...
...passes ever seen in corporate aviation. After a pressurized seven-hour meeting of its board of directors, the 52-year-old firm announced that Chairman Richard Ferris, 50, had resigned and would be replaced by Frank Olson, 54, who is currently head of the company's Hertz rental-car subsidiary. At the same time, for-sale signs were tacked onto Hertz as well as the Westin and Hilton International hotel chains, whose 149 hostelries constituted the third branch of the firm. Management also said it would seriously consider demands by the pilots for employee ownership. Finally, Olson recommended that...
Minutes before midnight, men posted on both sides of a street in suburban Manila opened fire on a passing car, killing two people and wounding Bernardo Buscayno, 43, the probable target of the ambush. Attacks by urban guerrillas of the left and right are not unusual in Manila, but this time the public furor was enormous...