Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although commercial-airline ads make lavish promises, "frequent flyers," as harried business passengers are called, know that three things are rare in the air: an on-time takeoff, a good meal and the use of a telephone. While the airlines work on promptness, the third problem will soon be remedied. Next month several American Airlines and TWA flights will begin carrying telephones for passenger...
...enthusiastic about the Airfone's reliability and usefulness. TWA already has equipment on board six planes, and United has prepared an in-flight video pitch to show passengers. No one, however, has yet dealt with what may become a new hazard of air travel for those weary frequent flyers: sitting next to someone engaged in a long and boring yak with the ground. One consolation, observes Delta Public Relations Director Bill Berry: "You can call out, but people can't call you." At least...
...course, too early to tell whether he will ultimately succeed, but the initial judgment abroad and at home is that he has created the proper climate for democracy to bloom. "Duarte has picked up a great deal of support in Congress," says Democratic Congressman Dante Fascell of Florida, a frequent critic of U.S. aid to El Salvador. "People are anxious to give him a chance." Says Rolando Monterrosa Gutierrez, head of an export association in San Salvador: "People are optimistic." Duarte seems exhausted and exhilarated by his first months. "This is not a pleasant job," he told TIME, but then...
...forming businesses to produce and supply telephone companies with a seemingly limitless variety of tapes, from Dial-a-Mystery to Gay News. San Francisco's Megaphone, for example, produces daily 60-sec. updates on ten popular TV soap operas, plus a Michael Jackson tape for fans who want frequent bulletins on what their idol is doing...
...that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote was a gossipy, party-loving sybarite with a gift for self-promotion and TV talk-show repartee. In recent years, however, his productivity faltered and he struggled-as frequent news reports about his hospitalizations and drunken-driving arrests gave witness-with an addiction to drugs and alcohol...