Word: dogfighting
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...partnership paid off. Since late 1979 nearly 100,000 copies of nine different versions of VisiCalc have been ordered at prices ranging from $100 to $300. It is far ahead of other business programs like Data Factory and General Ledger, and even outsells the programs for Star Cruiser, Dogfight and other arcadelike computer games...
...rich but tightfisted developer, Fred Bonfils. For the next several decades, the two partners made the Post one of the liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard chain). As Tammen liked to say, "We're yellow, but we're read...
Tehran has suffered only infrequent, light air raids by Iraqi planes. When the sirens go off, people on the street carry on as if nothing has happened. Nobody dives for cover: they just look up into the sky, hoping to see a dogfight, even though the state radio and television constantly remind Tehran residents that they should take the air raid signals seriously. Most people have covered the window panes of their homes or apartments with thick black paper or tin foil, in order to keep the lights on during the blackout. The reason is not so much the fear...
...very time when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was slumping and vulnerable to possible attack, some 1,250 Labor Party delegates trekked to the seaside resort of Blackpool for their annual conference last week and promptly turned their guns on one another. The result was a brutal factional dogfight that even the pro-Labor Daily Mirror branded "a triumph for lunacy...
Nonetheless, the deregulation of the airline industry is the main cause of the present dogfight. Before President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act in late 1978, companies were awarded specific routes by the Civil Aeronautics Board and then required to fly them as a public service. Fares were closely controlled. Now airlines are relatively free to fly where they choose and set fares with a minimum of Government interference...