Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing reluctance to move has not been lost on the big corporations, which have always felt free to move their people with abandon. A Delta Airlines spokesman reports: "People are absolutely putting their foot down about being hauled out of a city." Polaroid says that applications for transfers abroad, once in the hundreds for every job, are now in the dozens. Like many companies, FMC, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, is responding to employee pressure by eliminating many executive transfers around the country. Says a spokesman: "We are trying to slow down the revolving door...
...Delta of Venus...
...Russian plane, nicknamed Concordski by Westerners, looked almost like a twin of the Concorde with its ant-eater nose and swept-back delta wings, though its white fuselage was badly in need of a bath or a paint job. Also like the Concorde, the Tu-144 had a small cabin with narrow aisles and elbow-to-elbow seating; it carried a maximum of 140 passengers (the Concorde carries only 100). The inaugural aircraft lacked posh decor. Several of its ceiling panels were ajar, service trays got stuck, and window shades slipped down without being pulled...
...People are writing biographies differently today, looking at women as women," Delta White, assistant director of the Radcliffe Forum, said yesterday. "Authors are using biography as a vehicle for communicating the authentic female experience," she said...
...Delta of Venus...