Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Purchase of Frontier would enable Texas Air, which also owns Continental, to boost its share of business in the Rocky Mountain region substantially. Frontier, the 15th-largest U.S. carrier, would provide connections to Continental flights in Denver and in other cities that are served by the two airlines. Lorenzo may not be able to acquire Frontier without a fight. GenCorp, an Ohio-based company that holds a controlling interest in Frontier, had been planning to sell the carrier to its union employees for $17 a share. The workers may well decide to oppose the offer by Lorenzo, who is known...
...forces along the Vietnamese border. Zhang had reportedly been eager to teach the Hanoi government, a bitter enemy of Peking, a military "lesson," which China had attempted less than successfully in 1979. Zhang was overruled by Deng, who was said to have feared that the general was developing a "mountain-stronghold mentality," a tendency to take matters into his own hands...
...vice president; Robert Carter, a former marketing manager; and Bernie Zettl, a defense-industry consultant in McLean, Va. Investigators say that Edgington requested documents from Zettl, a retired Air Force major, who got them through Pentagon contacts and sent the material to a post office box in Mountain View, Calif. Carter allegedly picked up the purloined papers. Zettl and Edgington, who were indicted for receiving classified documents, could be sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Carter faces a conspiracy charge that may result in a five-year term...
...were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said. As the players looked toward the rear, they could see a dark mountain of ice receding into the distance. They went back to their game, and the ship sailed majestically...
...might not be able to make it," says Pilot Masami Takahama, as his plane pitches and yaws out of control. "Hey, there's a mountain," he tells his crew at one point. In the passenger cabin, a flight attendant says, "Hold your babies tightly." The last words recorded: "Pull up! Pull up!" The tape ends with a crashing sound...