Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already being felt. Exxon and Texaco notified customers that they are reducing deliveries of oil, gasoline and various refined products by as much as 10%. Other oil companies are expected to follow. The companies are also increasing their oil prices by up to 200 per bbl. Shortages of jet fuel have forced American, TWA and other airlines to juggle supplies to keep operating, and last week National reported that fuel shortages forced cancellation of its lightly traveled New York-Amsterdam flights. At the same time a sudden and unexpected lack of bunker fuel delayed ships sailing from some Far Eastern...
...speak English than Japanese.) Nonetheless, it is wise for Americans to bring their own interpreter, if they can find one skilled in both the Chinese language and U.S. business terms. Misunderstandings do occur; once some Boeing negotiators, slipping into airline slang, referred to a small bulkhead in a 747 jet, where food trays or small luggage can be stored, as a "doghouse." After many blank stares, the puzzled Chinese asked, "Why design your airplanes to accommodate dogs...
...passage from the Enchiridion, a manual for Roman field soldiers by the philosopher Epictetus: "It is better to die in hunger, exempt from guilt and fear, than to live in affluence and perturbation." It was a lesson Stockdale would draw on repeatedly after parachuting from his crippled A-4 jet and landing in North Viet Nam on Sept...
...jet airplanes must be directed over Cambridge so they can take-off directly into the wind. David Nsabimana, a noise monitor and technician with Massport, said yesterday. They will continue on their present pattern until the frigid, 48-knot wind shifts or subsides, he said...
James Weinrich, a tutor at Mather House and one of the many Cambridge residents bothered by the noise of the jet engines, said yesterday the jets are "really irritating" and put him off his sleeping schedule...