Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British capital with other members of the National Governors' Association on the first leg of a ten-day European trip to study the effects of acid rain; her husband suggested that the glass she swallowed may have been in a meal she ate while aboard a Pan American World Airways jet en route to England. Pan Am said that it strongly doubted that this could have happened. She is in good condition but is expected to remain at the clinic for two weeks...
...evidence, researched the precedents, and projected the Hinckley case outside itself and into a more general and philosophical consideration of the issues. All the while, he subtly weaves his argument and day by day New Yorker-style descriptions ("Jo Ann Moore Hinckley ... wore a salmon-pink outfit, with Peter Pan collar and bow, and spoke in a soft Texas accent") around the goings-on of an insanity trial being held at the same moment in the same city. The issues there are the same, but the costs less outrageous, the participants less famous and, instead of the prestigious firm...
...Heating-oil users are also benefiting from the fuel's competition with natural gas, which currently is in abundant supply in the U.S. Possibly adding to the gas glut is the Canadian government's decision in July to stimulate exports. Last week a leading exporter, Pan-Alberta Gas, announced that it would reduce prices to some U.S. utilities by as much...
Twelve of the planes ordered by Pan Am are wide-body Airbus A310s, which rival Boeing's new fuel-efficient 767s. The other 16 jets are Airbus A320s, the 150-passenger competitors to Boeing's updated 737s. In addition, Pan Am will immediately begin leasing 16 Airbus planes from the manufacturer to use until it takes delivery on its own aircraft starting...
Airbus has struggled since 1971 to win business in the American market, which represents 50% of the world demand for airliners. The European group captured the Pan Am business by making an offer the airline could not refuse. The equivalent planes from Boeing would have cost Pan Am roughly the same, but experts believe that Airbus sweetened the deal with irresistible financing and leasing terms...