Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formation after another of C-141s lumbered 1,000 ft. overhead at 125 m.p.h., spewing parachutists from both sides, as escort planes darted above them. It was an explosion, an inundation, a blizzard of men from the sky, lasting less than five minutes...
...grant application takes nine months from raw idea to finished application," says Lightman. "An economist tells me that we need ten applications pending all the time in order for the institute to stay alive." I.R.H. also administers the grants, charging only a fraction of what universities charge for administrative overhead...
With bare-bones overhead and sharply discounted fares, some of the puddle jumpers are emerging as profitable winners. For example, while the giants were fighting over the Florida market last winter with costly promotional gimmicks, huge advertising campaigns and discounts to travel agents, tiny Air Florida ferried passengers for sharply reduced fares in planes that were 85% full. This contributed to earnings of $1.4 million from February through April, a period during which most majors had losses...
...overflowing rice paddies, the picture of abject misery. 'Well, we're on the move again,' said one Khmer. Herders, many of them carrying shotguns, drove bunches of cattle down the roads and across the fields, spurred by the whooshing sounds of Thai howitzer shells passing overhead...
...what turned into a 15-mile, ten-hour trek away from the mountain, over what Nelson calls a "white-hot desert" of ash. They soon joined up with a 60-year-old man. The three kept up their spirits by singing bawdy songs. In late afternoon they heard helicopters overhead and waved some of their clothes to stir up a dust cloud large enough to attract the pilot's attention. They were rescued, and choppers soon carried out Balch and Thomas as well...