Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flow plan has indeed reduced the number of aircraft stacked in the skies in bad weather around major airports. Instead, the delays are taken in "gate holds" on the ground; planes are not allowed to leave until they have a chance to land promptly at their next stop. This prudent procedure caused more than 70,000 holiday travelers around the nation to be delayed last week when fog closed Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, a major airline hub. While the air-flow controls may annoy passengers eager to get going on their trips, pilots and controllers prefer...
Congress last year approved a request by Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole for funds to add 1,000 new controllers over two years. Dole claims, with little support, that the "system was way overstaffed before the strike" and that new "air-flow" procedures have made it possible for fewer controllers to handle more flights safely...
Musically, the performance is just as diffident. No matter how often heard, the melodic freshets and torrents of Strauss's score should always flow, but under Conductor Jeffrey Tate's charmless time beating, even the famous waltz proves resistible. Te Kanawa displays her shimmering voice to some advantage in the first act, then fades away. As the bubbly chambermaid Adele, Soprano Judith Blegen is unsure of pitch and unsteady of tone, while Baritone Hakan Hagegard inappropriately plays Eisenstein as a staggering buffoon...
...schemes to get money from her rich but miserly father in Utah. One summer she sends her two teenage boys, a pair of grungy rejects from the Dead End Kids, to stay with Gramps and steal his loot. But when he discovers the treachery and cuts off the flow of funds, Frances Schreuder orders one of her sons to murder...
...disarmament. In 1975 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was not allowed to go to Oslo to receive it. In January 1980 he was arrested by the KGB after criticizing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was then flown to exile in Gorky, where, despite a steady flow of criticism from the West, he has remained ever since...