Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by the limousine load-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
...executives overseas can pick up the increased taxes for their employees. Doing so would of course increase an employee's income and raise his taxes still more the following year. But if U.S. firms in labor-intensive operations attempt to compensate their overseas Americans for the extra tax load, their payroll costs could rise so much that they would become uncompetitive...
Specialists in medieval studies from the Departments of History, Fine Arts, Sociology and several European languages are now approaching the age of 66, when they must choose between teaching a half-load of courses for four years, or a full-load for two years...
...carried 117,000 passengers, averaged a 78% load factor and grossed some $14 million"-$1.5 million of it in profit...
...passengers by offering New York-London stand-by fares of $256, v. the basic economy rate of $626. Braniff now has a Dallas-London flight for $398. Latest figures, comparing April results with those of the same month a year ago, show that Pan Am's transatlantic load factor was 62%, up from 54%; TWA's surged to 72%, up from...