Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll. Taking a cue from Asquith's Pygmalion, the film casts Ward (John Hurt) as an aristocratic makeover artist, discovering Keeler (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) in the fetid anonymity of a Soho strip club and turning her into a star of the jet-set slumming circuit. Pluck your eyebrows, Christine. Wet your lips. Come over and say hi to Jack Profumo...
...airlines scramble to expand their fleets and replace aging jets, many have found that renting planes can be a better deal than buying them. The chief beneficiary of the trend is GPA Group of Shannon, Ireland, the world's largest jet-leasing company. Last week GPA confirmed its dominance by ordering 308 new planes valued at $17 billion, the biggest such purchase in history. Seattle's Boeing will supply 182 jets worth $9.4 billion, Europe's Airbus Industrie 54 for $4.3 billion, and St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas 72 for $3.1 billion...
...those who argue that the FSX will help Japan become a major power in civil aviation, the deal's supporters reply that Tokyo already has entered the field with willing help from U.S. aerospace firms. Japan is developing an advanced jet engine with U.S., British, Italian and West German companies and is building a rocket that may launch a two-ton satellite into orbit...
...misdirection, of hiding the obvious in plain sight. Once, this kitchen crew recalls delightedly, they cooked a batch on the shore of Lake Elsinore, a popular tourist spot near Los Angeles, tending the bubbling retorts in a round-the-clock paranoid marathon. "We came in four 'Vettes, pulling ten jet skis, followed by the RV," recalls Bernard, stroking a mustache that adds only slightly to his years. He is not yet 21 years...
BUSINESS: The FSX jet puts more strain on U.S.-Japan ties...