Word: kans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several airlines are simply trying to avoid using their jumbos in order to save money. United has postponed delivery of four 747s from mid-1971 to early 1973. Pan Am is keeping two jumbos in mothballs in Wichita, Kan., and is leasing three more to Eastern Air Lines. World Airways canceled its order for three 747s many months...
...have not won. The killing at home goes on in Jackson, Miss.; Lawrence, Kan.; in ghettos and barrios around the country. And in Indochina, the butchers have not paused a minute since...
Some 500 years ago the great Japanese warrior-poet Ota Dōkan built a castle on the marshy fringes of what is today Tokyo Bay. A bustling little town sprang up, and Ota wrote...
Today Ota Dōkan's poem is remembered more in sorrow than anything else. His beloved town has mushroomed into the world's most populous-and most polluted-capital, home to 11.4 million gasping people. The fabled pines are suffocating from smog. The blue sea is washed by tons of noxious industrial wastes. Tokyoites lament that soaring Fuji-san, obscured by deadly clouds of sulfur dioxide, shows its face only one day out of every...
Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan.) said that he supported the military action because it showed that the country was concerned for the fate of its prisoners...