Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compounded the uncertainties of an industry that is already in upheaval. Between now and the end of the year, vacationers and business passengers will be lining up at ticket counters of new or almost new airlines that many travelers have probably never heard of: Midway, Muse, Sun and People Express...
...with inquiries. In recent weeks, the number of passports issued by the State Department has jumped nearly 14% over the number issued during the same period last year. "There was a very slow start this year, but business has been picking up speed," says Jonathan Linen, head of American Express's travel division. "Now people are flocking to the gates...
...advisers began considering the options, which ranged in theory to a total suspension of all U.S. military aid to Israel, an action that would produce a fire storm of criticism from Israel's backers in the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker hurried to the White House to express the sentiment of the upper chamber. His advice, as a Baker intimate put it, was "Take some kind of action, but don't go too far. Buy time and let the heat of the moment pass." In the end, the group decided that four F-16s scheduled for delivery...
...future is rapidly materializing. Neither a simple savings and loan nor a conventional bank, it is a combination bank, insurance company, brokerage firm and credit-card company. The mergers in recent months of the Prudential Insurance Co. with Wall Street's Bache Group Inc. and American Express with the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage firm provide a glimpse of the shape of things to come in finance. With the help of computers, plastic credit cards and toll-free long-distance phone calls, these money supermarkets are carrying out perhaps the most significant change in the way people handle money since...
...proposal for a new system of governance was taking shape, students used existing channels and, often, extreme means to express their opinions on a variety of issues. Undergraduates were most piqued during the fall by new restrictions on where organizations could post announcements and by old--but arguably short--library hours during reading period and exams...