Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whitehead said the reports indicated the 150 were all of the people who had left the ship and none was missing. He also said no distress calls had been received from the ship...
Experts estimate that the distress sale gave People a cash transfusion good for perhaps several months of life. Within that time, the airline must begin to succeed on the new course that it set in May, to become a conventional airline competing for business travelers. Many industry specialists are doubtful that People, with its reputation for spartan travel conditions and first-come, first-served seating, will be able to convince passengers that it has made the switch. Says J. Henry Riefle, general manager of Manhattan's Hardach Travel Service: "No matter what People Express does, it will always be perceived...
...Newark airline has earned the nickname "People Distress." Its North Terminal center, once deservedly known as "the Pit," has improved over the years, but it still resembles a bus terminal at rush hour. A replacement facility is a year to 18 months away from completion. Horror stories have spread along the discount-fare grapevine of endemic baggage losses on People flights and of travelers stranded for hours in Newark, Denver or San Francisco. Chairman Burr protests that "we're as professional as any airline out there," but the stories have evidently hurt. One People way of fighting back...
...days were barely tolerable," said Flanagan. "The nights were hell." The survivors used up their only three emergency flares and sighted six ships without being able to attract attention. Finally, on the fifth harrowing night, with Deckhand Leslie McNish using a flashlight to blink the international distress signal SOS, the shipwrecked survivors flagged down a Norwegian tanker 335 miles north of Puerto Rico and lived to tell of the Pride's sorrowful fall...
...days numbered. This death sentence concentrates her mind wonderfully. She first thinks, naturally, of herself, "a sick woman in her middle years, betrayed by one man, abandoned by another." But as she retreats from the hospital into her aerie of an apartment overlooking Central Park, Margaret moves beyond present distress toward memories of the people who have helped to make her what she has become: a successful, solitary, dying woman...