Word: ga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While many other airlines have been engaging in cutthroat fare warfare for popular routes between New York and the West Coast, Delta has continued concentrating on its profitable "hub and spoke" system. The airline's planes collect passengers in outlying Southern cities, such as Macon, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., feed them into the "hub" airport at Atlanta, then send them out on longer-haul "spoke" flights to New York or Denver. Says Delta President David C. Garrett Jr.: "We are cautious, and our system is well balanced. During the winter, we make money on our North-South routes; during...
Correspondent Johanna McGeary went with Jimmy Carter from Washington to Plains, Ga., where in a moment of high emotion he made his own announcement that the 52 Americans were finally out of Iran. Says she: "It was the most dramatic end of a presidential term any of us expected...
...INDIVIDUAL GOALTENDING No Name GP MINS SAVES GA PCT AVG 27 Wade Lau 11 658 314 60 .839 5.47 30 Mark Whiston 4 238 68 18 .791 4.47 HARVARD 15 900 382 79 .829 5.27 Opponents...
...meet. Major crises were unresolved: 52 Americans were still held hostage in Iran, and the U.S. economy threatened to dip once more into recession. But on the banks of the Potomac, all seemed unusually peaceful. Congress was in recess, and Jimmy Carter was getting ready to retire to Plains, Ga. President-elect Ronald Reagan had not yet arrived in the capital. Both the old President and the new President issued remarkably similar New Year's wishes for the nation. Reagan hoped for "a year of health, happiness and peace." Carter said he resolved "to have a good transition...
...Algerian diplomat had seen all 52 of the hostages and "found them all in good health." In Washington, the State Department revealed that it was to receive a more detailed report from the Ambassador when he arrived in the U.S. over the weekend. On a holiday vacation in Plains, Ga., President Carter said of the hostages: "They all seem quite well, and we are very pleased at that. [But] it's still imprisonment. It's still insulting to see them held as prisoners...