Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman in Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection at tense or emotional moments...
...scheduled. The delays and uncertainties caused by the Rolls-Royce bankruptcy gave Boeing and McDonnell Douglas an additional competitive lead in the wide-bodied market. Lockheed was never able to make up that disadvantage, even though airlines found the TriStar plane reliable and efficient. The largest TriStar customer was Delta Air Lines, which operates 35 of the 220 now in service, and is buying three of the remaining 24 on firm order...
...McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed to become the second largest seller of commercial jets in the world. A total of 320 of the wide-bodied airliners have been sold since 1974. The consortium is also planning a plane for the highly competitive 150-seat market. One interested prospect: Atlanta-based Delta, currently the most profitable U.S. carrier. America's once unchallenged supremacy in commercial aircraft may well be gone forever. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Joseph J. Kane/Burbank
...leaving the spurned carriers with empty seats. This old problem has become even worse since the air controllers walked off the job because passengers are even more fearful of missing a flight or being delayed. The day before Thanksgiving was a near disaster for many airlines. Some 25% of Delta's passengers at its hub airport in Atlanta were so-called no-shows...
...tastes in smart boutiques. Foreign banks and trading companies compete for expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing to an all too visible superclass of the very rich. But at the same time, the great mass of Egyptians...