Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour after hour the uncertainty continued. Even after midnight, Eastern Standard Time, the division hovered uncannily close in New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Maine, Mississippi, Hawaii, New Mexico...
...those unjaded souls who like to celebrate New Year's Eve in style the ultimate in bibulous, bubbly bliss will be made possible this Dec. 31 by the su- personic Concorde. Bacchanals will be able to toast in 1977 at three strokes of midnight-in Paris, above the Atlantic and in Washington. They will get ready for their triple tipple by flying the Air France SST from Washington to Paris the night of Dec. 29. The celebration will begin with the first three courses of a New Year's Eve dinner at the Inter-Continental Hotel, followed...
...benefits; salaries of senior DC-10 captains would go from $58,248 to $79,200, plus more than $20,000 in benefits. The key problem is that the pilots also want to reduce the amount of time they are required to be on duty, especially between midnight and dawn; they also seek longer layovers between flights...
...midnight, most of the 25 people still in the room knew that the proposal was losing three to two. Still, the supporters were optimistic about the campaign...
...stroke of midnight next Monday, a 101-gun salute will mark the independence of the Transkei, a Denmark-sized territory on the eastern coast of South Africa. There will be tribal dancing, fireworks, feasting and bonfires, as there were to mark the birth of more than 40 African nations that have become independent in the past two decades. The difference is that in the eyes of most of the world, the independence of the Transkei- the first of the nine black tribal homelands that South Africa intends to set up as separate states-is a device by which Pretoria hopes...