Word: dogfighter
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Predictably, Crandall's revolutionary fare changes triggered a dogfight last week with Carl Icahn, the corporate raider turned executive who heads TWA. Icahn challenged the new fares by slashing TWA's rates as much as 40% below American's prices. Icahn also vowed to keep volume discounts for corporate travelers, which American's plan eliminated. "We are here to stay," he told TIME. "I'm not a passive guy. It's hard to drive a low-cost competitor out of business. And, as far as I'm concerned, it won't work...
Clark's break into film came last year with asupporting role in the critically acclaimed butcommercially disappointing Dogfight.Directed by Nancy Savoca, whose directorial debutTrue Love won top honors at the 1989 U.S.Film Festival, Dogfight stars River Phoenixand Lili Taylor in a story of a most cruel datinggame...
...role in Dogfight also enabled Clarkto learn from his highly successful costar, RiverPhoenix...
...Crimson also triumphed in a dogfight against Brown 75-71 at Briggs behind the 17 points of Captain Ron Mitchell...
Ronald Reagan, naturally, had the best instincts for how Hollywood would handle these things. He staged a dogfight with Muammar Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra in 1981. Five years later, Reagan wowed the world with Thirty Seconds over Tripoli. That raid was nothing less than an assassination attempt, in the same spirit as the cloak-and-dagger boys' dreams of using exploding cigars and Mafia hit men to finish off Castro in the 1960s. Much was made of how U.S. bombers taught Libya a lesson for its sponsorship of terrorism. Maybe so, but they missed their...