Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hockey player," says Bentkowski, who hails from Buffalo, "but I was a rare combination of lack of size and lack of speed." The world of magazine design was the obvious beneficiary. After graduating from Pratt Institute, he worked on a host of publications, among them Saturday Review, L'Express, the New York Times and the Atlantic...
...ruthless competition that has produced such cheap rides for consumers has inspired a dozen airline mergers in which rabble-rousers like People Express have been swallowed up. The six largest carriers, which controlled 76% of the U.S. market in 1978, now have about 81% and are expected to get 90% by 1990. Large combined airlines command so much market share at some airports that the carriers may be tempted to raise prices with virtual impunity. At least three carriers control more than 80% of the business in their main hubs: Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, TWA in St. Louis and USAir...
...Federal Government. Every broadcast station in the country must abide by the fairness doctrine, a Federal Communications Commission rule that requires broadcasters to air contrasting views on controversial public issues. A station that runs an editorial opposing nuclear power, for instance, must give the pronuclear side a chance to express its views. If the station fails to do so, it risks FCC censure; at worst, it could lose its license...
...numbers may go much higher. During the first four months of this year, Lufthansa Airlines carried 32% more passengers from the U.S. to Europe than it did a year ago, and warm weather had yet to arrive on much of the Continent. Sales of American Express vacations in Europe are up 70% over last year, suggesting the possibility that 1987 may come close to matching the record travel year of 1985, when 6.5 million Americans spent $6 billion on European travel. Says Helmut Klee, deputy director general of the Swiss National Tourist Office: "Two months ago, we would have hardly...
...counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could stick pins in a map, connect the dots and, with apologies to Amtrak, call it the Angst Express. The confused came to be made sound...