Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...either his father or his fiery grandfather and namesake "Mr. Sam" (who shrewdly built the family fortune but sometimes hurled dishes when angry). Young Sam has seemed a bit brash and arrogant to outsiders, but friends at Williams found him "relaxed" about his wealth and "even-tempered." No jet-setter, he was interested primarily in sport. Strong and wiry (6 ft. 3 in., 185 Ibs.), he had played tennis and basketball at Williams and possessed an encyclopedic mind for sport trivia. He had been looking forward to starting work as a trainee in the promotion department of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, where...
Whooshing from airport to similar airport, jet travelers usually find the world a pretty homogeneous place. Theroux destroys this illusion. His often snail-like pace (one local in southern India makes 94 stops) gives him the not always pleasant chance to sniff out local differences. "The first condition of understanding a foreign country," T.S. Eliot once wrote, "is to smell it," and Theroux misses nothing, from the burned coal that permeates Indian train stations to the poisonous industrial fumes of Osaka...
...course, not all industries shared in the improved second-quarter performance. Steel profits were down 26% from the first quarter, utilities 8%, and aluminum and other nonferrous metal producers 11%. Airlines flew in the red because of high jet-fuel costs and an un-economically low percentage of filled seats. Overall, though, the Citibank study painted a brighter second-quarter earnings picture than many experts had expected. Says Citibank Economist Robert Lewis: "The upturn in earnings is further proof that the economy has begun to bounce back...
...second biggest defense contractor (after General Dynamics), Lockheed has been financially shaky ever since it ran into mammoth cost overruns on the C-5A cargo plane in the late 1960s. It received a near lethal blow in 1971 when Britain's Rolls-Royce, maker of the jet engines for the company's civilian L-1011 TriStar, went bankrupt, and Lockheed eventually lost $300 million, due in part to canceled orders. A recent rescue operation, under which Textron Inc. would have provided $100 million in new cash in exchange for a 46.8% interest in Lockheed, fell through in February...
Quality varies widely. One of the best-regarded juku, Tokyo's Nippon Shingaku Kyoshitsu (Japanese Entrance Examination School), is so popular that children commute to its Sunday sessions from distant areas by jet plane and bullet train. Some 2,600 pupils -all sixth-graders propping for the junior high entrance exam-attend the school. A typical class starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues for 50 minutes with the teacher asking questions and 100 pupils chanting back the answers. ("When did the Russo-Japanese war break out?" "When was the League of Nations formed?") Recently, a visitor asked...