Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other lives by flying in an alcoholic haze or breaking a safety rule. For that matter taped cockpit conversations have demonstrated all too much inattention to duty among commercial airline pilots as well And as last week's disaster shows so graphically, the element of mere chance in course, timing and speed can doom even the most experienced pilots, as well as the many "souls on board" whose lives ended so innocently on a sunny morning over San Diego...
...pilots and an armada of 1,260 planes. It is, in fact, the third busiest airport in the country, after Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta. By contrast, commercial airfields in the U.S. have shrunk from 660 in 1966 to 400 today, of which a mere 23 serve 70% of all commercial aircraft activity...
...wages are $1,000, he adds a mere $167.98 to the family income. Although other economists have shown that changes in taxes and benefits have little effect on poor people's motivation to work, Laffer argues that the system clearly provides scant incentive to get off welfare...
Despite this natural law, you and I are still subjected to mere mortals who suggest that they can see into the future and divine the impending results of sporting events to such minute fractions as 3 to 5, 2 1/2 points, or maybe two field goals...
Although the Today Show told the nation Wednesday morning that Edward J. King's victory was an Eastern ripple effect from the tidal wave of California's Proposition 13, enough local commentators have since correctly assessed King's victory as a mere confirmation of the intensity of the contempt with which Massachusetts liberals hold Michael Dukakis...