Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion already pledged. The biggest banks, which have been masterminding the complex operation, were said to be confident that everything could be pulled together successfully, even though some smaller lenders in the U.S. and Western Europe were still seeking further assurances. Brazil's request for a new jumbo loan of $4.4 billion remained under consideration at New Year...
Later that day Customs agents, tipped off by the FBI, boarded a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet about to take off for Tokyo from San Francisco and arrested Tomizoh Kimura, an engineer for another Japanese firm, the Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (1981 computer revenues: $350 million). When the agents examined his luggage, they found confidential IBM computer tapes, which had also been provided, courtesy of Glenmar, for some...
...bestir ourselves, we ride out to big airports and climb onto big planes that are as amiably de-cultured as Muzak, as white sound. The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway-fast and convenient, but a sort of whispering vacuum. One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail...
...expand Braniff aggressively. The airline moved quickly to inaugurate service to a host of new cities. In a single day, December 15, 1978, Braniff began flying 16 new routes and added dozens more after that in the U.S., Europe and Asia. It borrowed millions of dollars to buy 747 jumbo jets to fly the new runs. Passenger loads, however, were nowhere near what was needed to make the new service profitable. On some routes, Braniff was flying as few as eight people on a 727, which can hold...
...Jumbo centerfielder John Guisti led off with a single, left fielder John Andon followed with a double--sending Guisti to third--and then Brown walked Harasimewicz to load the bases...