Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that we face an ecological crisis without any precedent in historic times is no longer a matter of any dispute worthy of recognition. And those who, for the purpose of maintaining balance in debate, take the contrarian view that there is significant uncertainty about whether it's real are hurting our ability to respond...
Peter Hall neither writes plays nor acts in them, yet no history of the postwar British stage could run much longer than a paragraph without mentioning his name. Founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, successor to Laurence Olivier as director of the National Theater from 1973 to last summer, he is the embodiment of the subsidized institutions that make Britain the envy of most U.S. drama fans. Even shows that bring Hall to Broadway -- including The Homecoming (1967) and Amadeus (1981), which won him Tony Awards for best director -- often originate in the nonprofit houses...
...come out fighting to regain our share of the market." Such a transformation, all agree, will take years to accomplish. In the meantime, says a NUMMI vice president, Bill Childs, there's an ironic parallel trend. "Look to the younger Japanese. They don't accept authority automatically any longer. They are more like us. They are our only hope...
...spoke route patterns have made Boeing's medium-range 737, which has a passenger capacity of 146, the best-selling airliner in history. More than 1,600 are now flown by 141 airlines, and 600 more are on order at a base price of $20 million each. For longer and more heavily traveled routes, carriers are buying twin-engine 757s, which cost about $40 million and carry as many as 220 passengers, and the larger 767s ($58 million). The big-money behemoth of the line is Boeing's 747 jumbo jet ($135 million), for which the manufacturer has 172 orders...
...plane-ordering boom has ensured enough orders for the takeoff of the company's once doubtful MD-11. A longer and more fuel-efficient version of the company's phased-out DC-10 line, the $100 million MD-11 has pulled in 47 orders, and gives Douglas a rival to the larger Boeing and Airbus models...