Word: frontierment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still near the peak of the summer travel season, but an eerie silence reigned last week in Concourse D at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. Nearby, the entire 42-aircraft passenger fleet of Frontier Airlines sat grounded. In the terminal building, there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
...same speech, Gorbachev dangled the prospect of another kind of troop reduction. To help create an "atmosphere of good neighborliness" with China, he said, the Soviets were considering a "substantial" withdrawal of troops from Mongolia and are willing to discuss joint force reductions along the Sino-Soviet frontier...
What is being said goes directly -- indeed, aggressively -- against the grain of contemporary flag waving. In 1984 the Del-Lords kicked off their first album, Frontier Days, with an up-tempo version of an old blues, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, which Kempner had discovered on a Ry Cooder recording. The new album opens on a note of embattled optimism with Heaven: "I need something that I can believe in/ And another person just won't do . . . I believe . . . that there's better days ahead/ I believe . . . there's a heaven before I'm dead...
...exhibit hall, 55 suppliers discreetly displayed their publications, a bewildering array of Bible translations and the latest wares for the compleat modern missioner. While television is the engine of U.S. evangelism, it is of no use to most of these frontier workers. A hand-cranked cassette tape player was the favorite gadget for preachers who cannot afford batteries and operate in areas that lack electricity...
Under the terms of the buyout, United will pay $50 million for Denver-based Frontier by this week, a clear sign of People's desperation for cash. After dropping an estimated $103 million in the first half of the year, People was believed to have less than $50 million in cash on hand, and is still losing about $4 million a week. Even so, the decision to sell off some of the company's assets was not made voluntarily by People Founder and Chairman Donald Burr. The move was forced on Burr by the remaining board members. The insurgents were...