Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign business of American carriers has grown 17%. But the airlines are watching a relatively slow year turn into a disaster. The financial outlook: "Stinko," declares Robert Crandall, chief of American Airlines, one of the healthiest carriers. Michael Durham, the airline's chief financial officer, blames the fuel jolt as the No. 1 problem. "There's very little you can do when a commodity that represents 15% to 20% of your total operating costs goes up by almost 100%. It's a very difficult time to make money...
...comes as something of a jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease...
...time when the recessionary economy was hurting the airlines anyway, the oil jolt has hit the industry particularly hard. For Continental, the doubling of fuel prices increased monthly expenses by $80 million. To pass along some of their higher costs, several carriers boosted airfares last week for the third time since August. Still, the higher fuel prices seem certain to intensify airline industry consolidation as weaker companies falter. Continental, which filed for bankruptcy in 1982, narrowly avoided a second reorganization last week when its management decided instead to consider selling planes and other assets. Pan Am meanwhile agreed to sell...
...true this time? After all the up-and-down reviews that coffee has received from medical researchers over the years, is it now possible to savor the dark brew without pangs of guilt? Can it really be that an energizing jolt of java, so good for the soul, is not bad for the body either...
Today, critics cite those side-effects as proofthat Sachs's economic jolt is no answer to EasternEurope's economic woes. In a front-page articlepublished in The Nation this summer, JonWiener, a history scholar at the University ofCalifornia, takes aim at Sachs's economic plan...