Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach. To accommodate the trend and squeeze out more revenue, the airlines are pursuing a strategy that will scarcely be cheered by their customers: they are removing about 6,500 first-class seats-some 30% of the total-and replacing them with 12,000 coach seats, all crammed closer together than before. The passenger cabin crunch is resulting in an increase in seats that is the equivalent of adding 40 stretched Boeing 727s to the airlines' fleets...
...cleaner and thinner and her life more elemental. The solitude and longed-for "power of seeing, really seeing" pull her onward. Leah's servant, Ahmed, shares her drive, but he is eager only to leave behind a life of error. Despite their backgrounds the un likely pair draw closer until the purity of the landscape erodes their differences...
...Closer...
...heavyweight J.V. managed a somewhat closer win over two lower-rank B.U. boats and the UMass J.V. Radcliffe and one B.U. eight jockeyed for the lead throughout the race, with Radcliffe pulling ahead by seven seats...
...ended up being closer than it should have been," captain Ned Reynolds said. "We were sloppy throughout the race and just sort of thrashed down the course...