Word: loads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Firestone's restructuring, while reducing its debt load, has failed to improve its standing in the market. The company's sales have shrunk by one- third since 1979, and its position in the worldwide business has fallen from No. 2 to No. 3. Firestone can only hope that as the first to slim down, it may also be the first to enjoy fully the benefits of greater efficiency and lower costs. Says Nevin: "The pruning we've done is pretty severe, but this company is beginning to grow again...
McFarlane flew to Tehran, Iran, last May with aplane load of U.S. weapons and--according toHashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranianparliament--a Bible, signed by Reagan...
...prime indignity for airline customers is to be bumped, or denied a reserved seat, because the carrier has booked too many passengers on a flight. Overbooking is a product of fare wars; because airlines are collecting less per seat, they want to ensure a full load to make a profit. The practice of overbooking crops up in other businesses when managers want to make the most of a prime-time rush of customers. At peak times popular hotels and restaurants sometimes bump customers who show up even modestly late for their reservations...
Both men are legendary soldiers who have survived long years in Viet Nam -- Elias by a kind of supernal sylvan grace, Barnes by simply refusing to die. Elias is Jesus crossed with Jim Morrison. He will literally take a load off Chris' shoulders, or share a fraternal toke with Chris through the barrel of a rifle, or moon over the night stars, or smile ingenuously at his killer. He is hard to know and harder to destroy, a creature of Stone's wild literary sentiment. Barnes, who says of some fresh corpses, "Tag 'em and bag 'em," has no sentiment...
...still undergoing major design modifications. Even before the first bombers became operational last fall at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, there were portents of trouble. The plane's fuel tanks, built directly into the wings without rubber bladders, leak jet fuel. Early flight tests revealed problems caused by loading cruise missile launchers and antiradiation pods onto the original airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading" of 245 lbs. per sq. ft., twice the weight carried by the commercial Boeing...