Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record $5.2 billion profit, up from $3.9 billion in 1996, and industry watchers expect earnings to climb to $5.4 billion this year. Passenger loads, averaging 70%, are at their highest in five decades. Alas, profits seem to be inversely proportional to passenger comfort. How else can you explain jumbo jets equipped with the smallest of seats...
...catches: they carry a jumbo $11,000 price tag, and they aren't wired to display movies in the upcoming high-definition TV standard. The first HDTV sets, due out this fall, will look more like refrigerators than wall hangings, and there still isn't any HDTV for them to show...
Just as John Riggins had his Hogs and Phil Simms and Ottis Anderson had their Jumbo Elliott and William Roberts, Linden and Menick thrive on the presence of their men up front...
...Harvard, he wrote an overzealous introduction, declaiming about 'mankind.' He didn't get any comment about his bad introduction, or anything else, he remembers. Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that.'" Upon checking the handbook for teaching fellows, Shrier discovered that the T.F. was indeed supposed to correct gender-biased language. Having the correction being the only comment on the entire paper, however, might be taking things a little...
...safe candidate to diversify the board, but RCA ended up with a woman who had the strongest technical background of the group," Selby smiles. "I could understand all their mumbo-jumbo on microprocessors...