Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raise the money they need to stay competitive in an economy of sky-high interest rates and proliferating price wars. "We are just staying economically viable," says an Eastern Air Lines spokesman. "We can't go the barebones, no-frills route because we'd lose passengers to Delta...
...preflight research can pay off handsomely. One Los Angeles businessman had expected to pay about $1,500 to buy round-trip tickets to Detroit for his wife and two children. Then he spotted a newspaper ad for Delta's new Los Angeles-to-Toledo service that offers $49 one-way tickets for family members, when one adult pays full fare. By going to Toledo, 60 miles from Detroit, and renting a car to finish the trip, the family saved about...
...biggest business groups in the country have been close to bankruptcy. Significantly, most of the troubled conglomerates are run by the so-called Marcos cronies, who rose to prominence under his aegis and received special loans and other favors from the government. The firms include the Herdis Group, the Delta Motors Corp., and the Construction and Development Corp. of the Philippines. The C.D.C.P. alone has received a total of 7.5 billion pesos (almost $1 billion) in government loans and guarantees, a huge sum for such a company in a developing country...
...long-troubled relations with India, the country that had helped it win independence, seemed to be at the heart of the assassination. The two nations are divided by bitter issues primarily concerning the lower Ganges River, which meanders through both countries as it flows out into a vast delta. Tensions have built up over rights to the Ganges water, various solutions to the water question and territorial claims to islands formed by silt at the mouth of a boundary river. The sovereignty question is particularly volatile: there are hopes of finding oil under nearby waters. While Zia had pressed India...
...delta-shaped spacecraft-part rocket ship, part airplane-raced around the earth at an altitude of 150 miles, its nearly perfect performance seemed a glorious vindication of more than a decade of effort and expense. Columbia's flight plan called for a 54½-hr., 36-orbit mission, ending with a nerve-racking, gliding descent into California's Mojave Desert. There was every expectation that it would achieve that goal. Three and a half hours into the flight, as the spacecraft began its third orbit, Mission Control sent word that Columbia was "go" for the full flight...