Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grounding was voluntarily followed by all but one airline outside the U.S. (Venezuela's Viasa, which uses five DC-10s). A total of 41 airlines that normally carry 60,000 passengers a day on the $40 million plane built by the McDonnell Douglas Corp. had suddenly lost key portions of their fleets. The initial result was confusion and tedious delays in airport terminals as travelers scrambled to get seats on other flights and airlines struggled to shift their available aircraft to plug the gaps left by the grounded planes. The crisis created turmoil in an industry that depends heavily...
...company needs 400 sales of the $40 million plane to cover costs and start making profits. It has already delivered 281, received firm orders for 49, and taken options-which buyers could still cancel-for 50. Last year the Douglas commercial-plane side, which McDonnell had acquired in 1967, lost $60.3 million, mainly because of unrecovered DC-10 costs. This was more than offset by the pretax profit of $281 million earned by other departments, primarily the McDonnell military division, which makes the F-4 Phantom, F-15 Eagle and F-18A Hornet fighters...
...raised the prospect of an intraparty challenge to Berlinguer's leadership, since it appeared to be a repudiation of his gradualist "historic compromise" strategy of joining the government in a national alliance with the centrist parties. Said Flaminio Piccoli, president of the Christian Democrats: "The Communist Party has lost its referendum on entering the government...
...first national election setback experienced by the P.C.I, in postwar history. The Christian Democrats, who overconfidently expected to score significant gains, could hardly brag about their own performance. The party that has dominated every Italian government since 1946 slipped fractionally from 38.7% to 38.3% of the popular vote and lost one seat in the lower house for a new total...
...through Dec. 15. Indeed, people hustling after the discount have bought out United's $14 flights from Los Angeles to San Diego through June 17, the last day of the big giveaway. United began offering the coupons May 28 in an effort to lure back passengers it had lost during a 58-day flight mechanics strike. Soon United's freebie was matched by American Airlines. By the time the promotion ends, United figures that both airlines will have passed out more than 6 million coupons...