Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Brock's office has a year to investigate the complaint, it is likely to rule much sooner. Transpace needs to win three new contracts quickly in order to retain its access to NASA's Delta launch missile. Without the use of the powerful Delta, Transpace would be grounded...
...Florida, it grew rapidly at the end of the decade, when airline deregulation permitted wide-open competition. By 1980 Air Florida was offering low-cost flights to major East Coast cities and to Europe, the Caribbean and Central America. But price wars blasted its profits, and aggressive rivals like Delta and Pan American flew off with much of the Miami-based carrier's business. Also damaging was the 1982 crash of an Air Florida jetliner in Washington that killed 78 people. Over the past three years the airline has had $59 million in operating losses...
...precariousness of so many black families has become a central concern of black leaders. Unstable and ill-formed families are, says Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "a threat to the future of black people without equal." Last week a national black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, held the first of 43 local conferences it has planned on the subject. At Nashville's Fisk University, about 200 scholars and officials from all over the country gathered for marathon discussions - alternately erudite and emotional, brooding and hopeful - on the black family's plight...
...always so, as one speaker recalled, reading reviews from nearly a half-century ago: "Clear as literary gumbo"; "Easy to read as a road sign way down on Miasma River." In 1946 a New Republic critic found Delta Wedding such tough going he did not finish the book. And Diana Trilling said of the same creation that she was vexed trying to determine "how much of my distaste" had to do with the work and how much to do with the culture...
Forty weatherbeaten shacks and a grassy airstrip by a swampy river delta may not seem like much of a military stronghold. "But in the year-old guerrilla war along Nicaragua's southern border with Costa Rica, the jungle hamlet of San Juan del Norte has taken on a symbolic importance well beyond its dubious strategic value. After three days of pitched battle two weeks ago, contra guerrillas from the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) overwhelmed the Sandinista garrison in the town and scored their first major military victory. After a few uneasy days of quiet, Nicaraguan troops counterattacked last week...