Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in losses for the first half of the year. Eastern, which had made a profit in the first quarter, flew $12.8 million into the red during the second quarter and ended up with small first-half earnings of $4.5 million. Among the U.S.'s major airlines, only Delta, which earned $73.9 million in the past six months, is making substantial profits. Some of the regional airlines are also excelling; USAir, formerly known as Allegheny, rang up earnings of $35.9 million during the first half...
...nation's airlines are already exhibiting some of the effects of deregulation that may eventually show up in the trucking industry. Like an army of gnats, regional and commuter airlines are swarming over travel routes that were once the exclusive preserves of such major airlines as TWA. Delta and United. Feisty lilliputian lines are vying not only for the majors' abandoned routes but also for their profitable main intercity runs...
...June issue, cover dominated by a man in a white jumpsuit and a yellow hard hat cradling a machine gun, features research pieces on dozens of new lightweight automatic rifles, and articles sporting titles like "Death in the Delta." The letters columns ("Flak" and "Cuss and Discuss") carry wide-ranging opinions on men and munitions. Larry Loper, of Sugar Land, Texas, contributed the following to one discussion of the relative merits of 45s vs 9 mm ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Brown University last week took Phi Delta Beta fraternity off a probation imposed last month after an alleged incident of group sex there...
Another fraternity, Delta Tau, which was placed on probation at the same time as Phi Delta Beta, remains on probation. Delta Tau members allegedly threw a sofa out of an upstairs window, set it on fire and then urinated...