Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Piedmont owes much of its current success to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Before that Piedmont, like other regionals, had been restricted mostly to the role of a "feeder" airline delivering travellers to the large carriers waiting at such major hubs as Atlanta and Chicago to fly them to their final destinations. Says William McGee, Piedmont's vice president for marketing: "We knew we were generating a substantial amount of traffic in our core system and then giving it to somebody else." Since it is generally cheaper to carry passengers on longer flights with fewer stops, the feeders...
...What is more, these areas are only 40 miles or so from pumping station No. 1 on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which was built to carry oil for the nearby Prudhoe Bay oilfields. That area was particularly attractive because it meant that only relatively short feeder lines would have to be built to get oil to the pipeline, which would carry it into U.S. markets...
Never mind the notes, print the napkin, a visiting reporter thinks contentedly, as lunch at Craig Claiborne's eases toward coffee. Claiborne is a cherisher of food, a distinguished feeder who is himself a renowned cook, and since 1957 he has conferred distinction on the New York Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday...
...government, on the other hand, went out of its way to accommodate the earnest horde and expected its costs to exceed $ 1 million, including overtime pay to the 5,000 police assigned to oversee the crowds at the U.N., in the park and in more than a dozen converging "feeder marches" from all over the city. Assisting the police were the rally's 3,000 volunteer "peace keepers...
...laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these techniques are rarities, but they may soon be routine. As Kansas Cattle Feeder Harold Burnett puts it: "Water misers" will last longer. But even the stingiest will go under if neighbors are wasteful and the whole aquifer dries...