Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspended cargo flights to the U.S. The move followed the seizure of 422 lbs. of cocaine on a flight from Bogota to Miami. The U.S. Customs Service fined the airline $6.8 million. Since 1986, 5,000 lbs. of cocaine have been found on 14 Avianca flights, and the carrier felt it had to cancel its cargo service...
...there is the faint question that comes with the endless wind. How long before this drought tumbles the old records? Then what? Malard shrugs. The last good rain he felt on his face was in August 1987. In March of this year a 10-in. blizzard roared in and hit his area. He waited it out in his house, daring to hope that this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks...
...sourness has crept into U.S.-Japanese relations that goes beyond the familiar Japan-bashing by Washington and protestations of innocence by Tokyo. Americans felt betrayed last year when Toshiba Machine Co. illegally sold sensitive defense technology to the Soviet Union. At the same time, U.S. worries over signs of an American decline easily shade into bitterness against a Japan whose wealth seems to dwarf its responsibilities to the rest of the world. For their part, many Japanese have wearied of incessant U.S. nagging about trade issues and now express some satisfaction over the image of a bumbling Uncle...
...felt that there were some good case studies of local government, but most of the focus was on state and federal issues," Bogg says. "I felt there should have been more of a focus on local concerns...
...Says McKay: "I would not urge anyone to subject their families to what I've had to do. If you stand up and insist on not going along with wrongdoing, you're going to have people try to crush you." Recalls Williams: "Ashland Oil had been my life. I felt fiercely loyal to the company, but I felt betrayed." Both men believe they were blacklisted by the petroleum industry after they left Ashland. The executives can hope, though, that their victory may bring about some change in corporate ethics. Says Thomas Dunfee, a professor of social responsibility at the University...