Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Delta ended that benevolent policy two weeks ago when it scrapped the 10% commission that airlines have paid agents to distribute tickets for domestic flights. Instead, Delta placed a $50 cap on fees for ticketing round trips costing $500 or more. American, United, Northwest, TWA, Continental and USAir swiftly joined the formation in moves that the industry says could save it $800 million this year...
...Sara M. Mulholland '95, cohead of Delta Gamma, the younger of Harvard's two fledgling sororities, said that even when the Commons is finished, it will not substitute for the activities of a sorority...
...innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the arrest warrant.' '' His two suitcases were left in Room 16 till dusk. Pakistani officials later announced that the bags contained bombmaking equipment, including two toy cars packed with explosives, as well as flight schedules for United and Delta airlines. Ali Mohammad, they said, was really Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a man with a $2 million bounty on his head and the alleged mastermind of the 1993 attack on New York City's World Trade Center...
...five-part documentary series airing next week on the Discovery Channel, as "the greatest peacetime migration in American history." It was a phenomenon that went largely undocumented at the time. Many of the migrants-and the ones focused on in this lucid, moving documentary-came from the Mississippi Delta and headed due north, to the booming city of Chicago...
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...