Word: dogfighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that's changing fast. Long Beach is the unlikely scene of the airline industry's fiercest dogfight over passengers and landing slots. Upstart carrier JetBlue Airways cleverly identified Long Beach airport as a back door into the lucrative Southern California market--and a way around the luggage lines and traffic jams that afflict the bigger airports 22 miles north in Los Angeles and 22 miles south in Orange County. It's a fight that features the usual coast-to-coast fare cuts, but it's also one that suggests passengers are changing the way they think about air travel...
...Crimson’s first-round matchup with Brown the week before was just as dramatic. After coasting to a 4-1 victory in Game One of the best-of-three series, Harvard found itself in a dogfight the very next night, having to battle back from a third-period deficit to force overtime...
...Black and White lost a dogfight to BU by 0.2 seconds a week ago for Charles River bragging rights but came back to break out an open-water victory over the Terriers in the morning heats. The same was true against Northeastern in the final, as Radcliffe turned a one-second loss a week ago into a convincing victory by a half length this weekend...
...Lawrence—the two-time defending ECAC tournament champion—is in a real dogfight for its playoff livelihood. The Saints won only twice during the month of February and have scored just eight goals over their past six games. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs played themselves back into the playoff race with a sweep of Vermont and Dartmouth last weekend after losing six straight...
...company that was overstretched." RSC managing director Chris Foy speaks enthusiastically of a break from his company?s "well-engineered but constricting operating model, a move away from the railway timetable concept." But whether the RSC finds a new direction, or has its identity chipped away by the dogfight for vacant theaters and the struggle to survive in the carnivorous world of the West End, is a dilemma it will soon have to resolve...