Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than $300 million worth of free-travel credit. But now the No. 1 carrier, United, is leading what may become an industry-wide trend toward throttling back the giveaways. Last week the 4.5 million members of United's Mileage Plus program began receiving letters advising that the airline will launch a "new and improved" plan. In fact, the changes will impose much tighter restrictions on the most popular freebie trips...
Organizers said they are placing extra emphasison security for this year's race after a studentalmost drowned several years ago. Five policeofficers will be posted on the banks of the river,and two others will be in 25-foot launch on thewater, Frenkel said...
...more than a decade, Splash, in which Daryl Hannah played a frisky mermaid. But by then the company's profits and stock price were already plunging. The same day that Disney released the film, Roy Disney made a splash of his own by resigning from the board to launch an effort to oust the top management. He sensed an outside takeover looming, which he aimed to fend off. Meanwhile, Manhattan Raider Saul Steinberg, hearing a tip about Disney's turmoil, began to buy a huge chunk of its stock. Contending that Disney was worth more money in pieces than...
...with situations that cannot be reduced to mathematical formulas and may involve many exceptions. It is the kind of reasoning that governs countless everyday decisions, ranging from the mundane, such as choosing the appropriate clothes for a job interview, to the apocalyptic, such as deciding whether a Soviet missile launch is a routine test or an all-out attack...
...much for the bad news. The good news for Fox is that, a year after the launch of its first prime-time shows, it is still around. Ratings for its Sunday-night schedule have risen in recent weeks, and the network is attracting a high proportion of young-adult viewers, those most desirable to advertisers. The future is still cloudy, but Fox executives are looking ahead with dogged, if chastened, determination. "We've had to learn the hard way and the expensive way," says Programming Chief Garth Ancier. "But no one has ever got this far before...