Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at Dartmouth were disgruntled at onlyreceiving an honorable mention in the survey."Dartmouth has long been famous as a party school,said Steve Salem, former vice-president of theSigma Nu Delta chapter at Dartmouth. "The movie'Animal House' was based on Dartmouth. MIT? Whatis this...
...flight schedule with Republic's, creating what will be the fifth largest U.S. airline, with 9.4% of the market. Trans World Airlines, which gained DOT % approval early this month for its $250 million purchase of Ozark Air, will soon be the sixth-place carrier (8.1%). Two weeks ago Delta Air Lines announced a bid to take over the fourth-place spot (11.9%) in the passenger race with an $860 million play for Western. Warns Lee Howard, an economist with the Washington consulting firm Airline Economics: "We see a tight oligopoly emerging in the airline industry, with perhaps a half-dozen...
...memoir. He rehashes service politics, finds the racial attitudes of the previous Chief of Naval Operations contemptible, and the Viet Nam War "worse than futile": "The Navy men killed in the river war meant a proportionately greater saving of lives for the Army and the accelerated pacification of the delta. But all that was accomplished for nothing, so all these soldiers and sailors died in vain." Bitter truth does not come easily to him; the Naval Academy did not teach no-win decision making...
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has long dodged the merger dogfights that have broken out all over the skies. Rather than pursue competitors, prosperous Delta (fiscal 1986 profits: $47.3 million) has grown by adding hubs in Dallas and Cincinnati. Last week Delta tacitly admitted that such a strategy might be a bit timid for these turbulent times. Seeking to become a force in the West, the carrier announced that it was buying Los Angeles-based Western Air Lines for $860 million. If approved by the Department of Transportation, the deal would give Delta two new hubs, in Salt Lake City...
...think of no punishment too severe for the criminals responsible." In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time." The U.S. dispatched a secret Delta team to Karachi to be used if a commando assault on the aircraft was required. But the bloody affair ended several hours before the Delta team reached Pakistan...