Word: heathrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of traffic they conduct for their and his firm's profit. "lf I can go along with selling the blood of poor Russians," he asks himself, "where if anywhere will I draw the line?" So, after one more disillusioning visit with the Orlovs, Oliver deplanes at Heathrow Airport and impulsively asks to see a high-ranking officer of Her Majesty's Customs Service. As it turns out, Oliver is just the person that Nat Brock has been waiting to meet...
Companies in a number of industries are also engaged in what might appear to be counterintuitive economics: reining in budgets in the face of big revenue gains. Dixon Ticonderoga Co., based in Heathrow, Fla., a 203-year-old maker of pens, pencils, chalks, watercolors, highlighters and other types of markers, is slashing its marketing budget in spite of a hefty 14% increase in sales last year. "We have to hunker down here," says company president and CEO Gino N. Pala. "We have to watch things closely. I don't think we've felt the worst of the economic crunch...
...Sullivan, the poker-faced TV variety-show host, having spotted the effervescent moptops in mid-mob scene at London's Heathrow Airport the previous October ("Who the hell are the Beatles?" he'd asked excitedly), brought them over to play his show early on, in February 1964, and 70 million people tuned in. A congratulatory telegram from Elvis Presley, the great, lost god of rockabilly, was read at the beginning of the show, in what might have been seen as torch-passing fashion, and Americans--or American youth, at any rate--promptly fell in love. ("I give them a year...
...those of us unable to afford a round trip from Logan to Heathrow and a two month Eurailpass and too lazy to take more than the required amount of Foreign Cultures courses, Jan Morris compresses 50 years of Europe into fewerthan 400 pages. Amazingly, she man-ages to capture much of the flavor, the undefinable essence of the myriad nations and cultures that compose the European community. Even more amazing, though, is the fact that the book is actually, at times, boring...
...went according to plan. The first casualty was civility. When Simpson arrived in London last week, he was greeted at Heathrow Airport by a shoving horde of photographers and jeers from protesters shouting "Murderer!" The former running back retreated behind an offensive line of British bobbies, who escorted him to a car that bore an uncanny resemblance to his famous white Bronco...