Word: loads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closed. In Prince Georges County, Md., by contrast, a judge who suddenly found himself short of jurors simply sent sheriffs deputies out to round up some citizens. Among the 20 or so corralled were a woman heading home with a bag of groceries and an angry trucker with a load of wet cement. In South Carolina's Hampton County, everything depends on an antique system in which a child under ten or a blind person sits in court and pulls the names of potential jurors from a metal box. Says Marjorie Avant, a courthouse employee: "No one ever suggested...
Many of the big carriers are now doing well because their large aircraft, which were often flying half full before the controllers went on strike, are carrying more passengers, since the FAA is allowing fewer flights to take off. Their load factors-the number of paying passengers on each plane-were often up during the month of August as compared with a year ago (see chart). Fewer nights carrying more passengers can mean profits for airlines that had been losing money because of the industry's excess capacity. Said Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis: "We feel we will have...
Wall Street's airline industry watchers agree. Says Analyst Julius Maldutis of Salomon Bros.: "We believe that the current schedule of fewer flights will become institutionalized. Load factors will rise sharply, fuel consumption will fall, and price wars and discount fares will become a fond and distant memory." Analysts estimate that airlines, which collectively earned only $75 million in 1980, could earn $400 million to $600 million this year, and perhaps as much as $1 billion next year...
...additional cabling is added to the computer and students drop out or switch to Applied Sciences 10, "Automatic Computing," the load may be eased, however, Lewis added...
Kelleher's early fascination with Irish literature bloomed in later years into deep interest in the country's early history. His extensive work on early written histories and genealogies--which will take up even more of his time when he reduces his teaching load next year-require as much sleuthing as anything else, searching for names in one place after another in an attempt to create a more solid history. It is scholarly work that does not require lecturing, which in some ways may be a relief for Kelleher. Though the Configuide and other sources have labelled...