Word: munchkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imagine a book that's as tall as a munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" and twice as wide. A book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...
...scant consolation to frequent flyers coping with Ouija-board ticket prices, jammed cabins and Munchkin-friendly coach seats, but the U.S. airline industry has reached cruising altitude. Last year it posted a $2.5 billion profit. Compare that with the $13 billion in losses the carriers had piled up since 1990--roughly equivalent to all the profits earned in the history of American commercial aviation--and the industry ought to be smiling, or at least unbuckling its seat belt and raising a $5 martini in a plastic...