Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money," the platform brought fading Saturn back onto their TV monitors again. This week they hope to aim the cameras at Phoebe, the planet's outermost moon. Even if the problem recurs, though, it should not spoil the photographic reconnaissance of Uranus or Neptune. The controllers can simply "pan" the cameras by rolling the entire spacecraft with blasts from its small thrusters...
Changing pilots at Pan...
...European Community and a slumping currency, the four-year-old center-rightist government of Prime Minister George Rallis is coming under a withering campaign assault from left-wing Socialist Opposition Leader Andreas Papandreou. The onetime University of California economics professor, now head of Greece's far-left Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, blames his country's misfortunes on everything from membership in the European Community to its return last year to full military participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Continental chairman had built up a reputation as one of the top executives in the airline industry. Only two months ago, Pan American Chairman William Seawell offered Feldman the Pan Am presidency, but Feldman declined. During nine years as chairman of Denver-based Frontier Airlines in the 1970s, Feldman transformed that carrier from a major loser to a consistent moneymaker by paring unprofitable routes, streamlining management and restructuring its flight operations...
...largest and best-known American carriers. Since January, passenger volume on American Airlines has slumped by 3.8%, while on TWA it is down 10.7%. Though American managed to inch back into profitability during the first six months of 1981, TWA lost $11.1 million, while United Air Lines, Eastern and Pan Am were...