Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although airlines offer frequent service to and from major cities at popular hours, many passengers have become increasingly irritated because some of these flights are delayed up to 70% of the time. In April the U.S. Department of Transportation began prodding the airlines to adopt realistic schedules. The effort paid off last week when six carriers agreed to eliminate chronically late flights at four of the busiest airports in the nation...
...nightfall on Macumba Landing. Wild cries of birds and the trumpeting of elephants come from the nearby bush. A sign warns of a deadly piranha and frequent native attacks. From a downed Cessna lying wrecked in the tropical greenery come eerie blinks of emergency lights, revealing the mock skeleton of a pilot. Adventurers gather, some wearing the suits of corporate strivers, others in guerrilla battle dress or the Panama hats of dissolute plantation owners. But as waiters serve frosty pastel drinks, yam chips and shrimp fritters, it is obvious this is no jungle clearing, no stage set for The Emperor...
...modern pitchers are dipping into the past, they are probably not alone. Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has been suspicious enough of corked lumber to order increased vigilance, and the bat of the Mets' Howard Johnson has already been X-rayed more than most frequent flyers. In their memoirs, the unsanitary pitcher Gaylord Perry and the unscrupulous slugger Norm Cash explained the rudiments of drooling and drilling. Well, almost every player today can read, and so many of them are handy with tools...
...over 50 periodically undergo routine, if unpleasant, examinations with a proctosigmoidoscope, a hollow, lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for signs of cancer. A blood test that could alert people that they carried a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer might motivate them to seek frequent checkups...
...club called the Mineshaft, where audience members wore miner's hats with flashlights on top ("Performing there was like being interrogated by the police," he recalls). Leno eventually graduated to the big time, and in recent years has played a grueling 300 road dates a year, besides making frequent guest appearances with Letterman...