Word: flagships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Sir Freddie Laker inaugurated his no-frills, low-fare transatlantic flights in 1977, Europe's flagship airlines viewed the enterprising Englishman with a mixture of disdain-and apprehension. Now that Laker has proved the profitability of catering to frugal flyers, some of the once haughty carriers are imitating his stripped-down style. Beginning this week, British Airways and Air France will eliminate first-class seats from all their nights within Europe. The two airlines will offer first-class service only on intercontinental trips. KLM Airlines has already eliminated the first-class section on flights between Amsterdam and London...
Business is also booming for carriage trade retailers like Neiman-Marcus of Dallas and Saks Fifth Avenue. For weeks, their branches have been brisk with crowds of well-heeled shoppers. In Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan, free-spending shoppers are readily paying $545 for Burberry trench coats or $1,000 for life-size hand-carved replicas of China's eight immortal mandarins. At the Younkers department store in Omaha, one customer recently bought seven Yves Saint Laurent blouses as gifts for $400 each...
...wreck that may turn out to be the most precious find of all. The ship, discovered two years ago in 30 ft. of clear water 60 miles north of Haiti, is, according to a growing number of scholars, Christopher Columbus' Pinta, sister ship to the Nina and the flagship Santa Maria, which is believed to have sunk in a hurricane, eight years after the discovery of North America in 1492. Frick and his partner hope to verify that theory by raising the galleon intact - a six-month process they will begin next month...
...Ethiopian rabbits made more mischief in the 5,000, taking runs at anyone with the temerity to challenge their flagship. The most elegant Alphonse and Gaston routine took place on the final backstretch when Ethiopian Mohammad Kedir, then second behind Kaarlo Maaninka of Finland, swerved to the outside so that the Shifter could rocket through for his second gold. Poor Kedir got tangled up with the pack, lost a shoe and finished dead last...
...storm troopers. But the troopers are never seen, and only later, when the tape of Threepio's last words is automatically played back, does the audience realize what has happened to him. At the film's end, Luke and Leia suddenly find themselves safe aboard a rebel flagship. It will take a good memory-or a second or third viewing, a low rate of return for Star Wars cultists-to recall that the ship was supposed to wait for them at a predetermined rendezvous...