Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likely to become a familiar sight on U.S. runways. Fokker is negotiating with United Airlines for the sale of as many as 200 planes, and with Delta for 100. Says Fokker's Swarttouw, 56, who plans to retire soon: "We have secured a future for Fokker of 15 to 20 years...
Even if technical problems ground the shuttle program again, there will still be some big news from space. In July, for example, NASA will use a Delta rocket to launch the Cosmic Background Explorer, a satellite that will study the background microwave radiation that emanates from every part of the cosmos. These microwaves are thought by astrophysicists to be the faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion...
Meantime, Eastern's competitors had a field day poaching on the crippled airline's territory. TWA, Delta and Pan Am added flights on Eastern routes to capture its customers. Even Amtrak and Greyhound expanded their service to meet the new demand. TWA Chairman Carl Icahn confirmed that Eastern's unions had asked him to launch a bid for the airline. Icahn briefly considered such a bid last fall. He found the idea interesting, he said, but did not want to interfere in Eastern's collective-bargaining process. Lorenzo was cool to the suggestion. "Our major goal at the moment...
...predator haunts the Mississippi Delta, restlessly scanning the flooded soils in search of its next meal. Black, hooknosed and web-footed, the hunter can dive as deep as 75 ft. under water and consume a pound of fish a day. The bird is known as the double-crested cormorant, but people in the delta are calling it the catfish poacher...
...contrast, cannot afford to purchase new jets. ! Instead, the airline is overhauling its 35 747s. But keeping older planes in good running order is also costly. Pan Am spends an average $815 in maintenance costs for every hour that a plane is carrying passengers, vs. $377 for Delta, which has a newer fleet and advanced maintenance equipment. Some experts and airline employees have contended that cash-strapped airlines will be tempted to skimp on maintenance. But when the FAA conducted an intensive probe of one such carrier, Eastern, no serious faults were found...