Word: fared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapidly expanding Texas Air. The price: a bargain $125 million. At the same time, Texas Air will buy People's grounded subsidiary, Frontier Airlines, for $176 million. The complex deals, which come in the wake of several other big airline mergers, could mark a turning point for the low-fare carriers and indeed for the entire industry. The swift consolidation in the skies also raises the prospect of reduced choices and higher prices for consumers...
...deregulation in 1978 has long since peaked: from a high of 123 certified passenger carriers in 1984, the field has now shrunk to 96. Enthusiasm for new airline ventures among financial backers has dropped dramatically. Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able to get started now. Wall Street is casting too questioning an eye on new airlines." David Hinson, chairman of Chicago-based Midway Airlines, cites another barrier. Says he: "All the infrastructure, like airport gates, has been consumed by the big boys...
...Mike, a newspaper columnist rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation shows of their own. If neither is as groundbreaking as its predecessor, both exhibit a quality rare in prime time: they are unmistakable products of their creators, not of the TV assembly line...
While undergraduates living on campus during the academic year are forced to ingest such upscale prison fare as broccoli-cheese pasta, scrod that never had a chance, and produce that would make a P.O.W. think twice, alumni living in the houses are being feted to meals fit for a French Sun King...
Isaacs hopes that Channel 4's adventurous, often abrasive fare will reach a wider audience in this country. "Americans say they love British TV, but virtually nothing from British TV is shown on American television," he contends. "Most of what is shown is the worst of what we do. Masterpiece Theatre concentrates on simple, safe costume dramas." Simple and safe: two words that do not seem to exist in Channel 4's lexicon...