Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advantage that People's low-wage, nonunionized employees produced over other carriers: 5.28 cents to fly a passenger one mile last year, vs. the industry average of 8.6 cents. He was overly blithe as he pushed his company into Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth, the territory of two major rivals, Delta and American. People gained size but it failed to gain strength...
...shower was a Big Bird spy satellite, intended to keep a keen polar-orbit eye on the Soviets. The explosion was the second successive Titan 34D failure within a year, after nine perfect flights. NASA bravely tried another launch, and on May 3 was dismayed when its long-reliable Delta rocket, carrying a hurricane-spotting satellite, had to be detonated over Cape Canaveral after its main engine shut down prematurely and the vehicle tumbled out of control...
...expects to have the space program restored to at least minimal launch capacity this summer: NASA hopes to use an Atlas-Centaur rocket combination later this month to lift a Navy fleet communications satellite, although the similarity of the electronics in the Atlas engine to those in the failed Delta remains a concern. At the earliest, Delta and Titan could be back in the air in six months. On NASA's part, the agency's newly appointed administrator, James Fletcher, has said he expects to correct the flaws in the shuttle and resume flights by July...
...weights involved seem well beyond the lifting potential of any launchers the U.S. now has. Says Colonel George Hess of the Pentagon's SDI organization: "We cannot handle this volume with shuttles and Titans and Delta rockets. Something new will have to come along." More precisely, the U.S. will have to design and build far more powerful launching vehicles: perhaps new unmanned rockets, or an upgraded "space truck" version of the shuttle, or President Reagan's "Orient Express" space plane. An SDI report to Congress says the cost could approach $60 billion just for lift, without counting a penny spent...
...most recent odyssey took a week, during which he zigzagged 1,000 miles up 200 miles of the fabled Mississippi Delta. Yes, Faulkner came from here, but, more important to Malcolm White at the moment, so did B.B. King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and a lot of old lesser lights who still sing the blues off the front porches of tumbledown shacks. "Check this out," White said at one point. "We're going to pick up a blind man that's going to show...