Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq. Some carriers have gone further. Jet Tours, a major holiday carrier 70% owned by Air France, has simply shut down all its tours to Syria, Jordan and Yemen. Some regular commercial carriers are making costly detours around the entire Middle East region. KLM, for example, is rerouting long-haul flights that normally land in Dubai or Bahrain, cutting its weekly service to the region by more than half. Pan Am has rerouted its flights from Frankfurt to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia so that they fly farther from Iraqi airspace. Air France has canceled a stopover in the gulf emirate...
...into the house without disturbing seven guard dogs and Shoen's sleeping children. But what was the motive? Police have not ruled out a possible link to the feud between Shoen's husband Sam, 45, and other family members who are battling for control of the Phoenix- based U-Haul International truck-rental empire (1989 sales: $1 billion...
...power struggle began four years ago when patriarch L.S. Shoen began turning the U-Haul dynasty over to his 12 children. Since then, son Sam has become embroiled in an interfamily management dispute that reached the level of fisticuffs at a 1989 meeting. The elder Shoen is now attempting to regain control of the company and bring the feud...
...intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic. "This is not Panama or Grenada," says a man who has served both Reagan and Bush. "This is a deal with no known end," and the long haul is not America's strong suit. "The risk that is we won't be patient and determined enough to undertake the pressures of long-term commitment," says House Speaker Tom Foley...
...situation is a marked turnaround from 1986, when unemployment topped 12%, U-Haul trailers streamed out of the city, and foreclosures were rampant. Today the area has regained 77% of the 220,000 jobs it lost; unemployment has been whittled to 5.3%; and suburban condos that sank in value to as little as $5,000 have rebounded to more than...