Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meyer added, though, that it would be unfair to attribute to the professor the biases of the corporation he works for. And later he said he had done "a little" consulting for Pan American Airlines, and that for years he visited General Motors annually to give a talk about the virtures of small cars. "They got great chuckles out of it," he added...
Even a holy man likes to shoot the breeze, and the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, chatted amiably with an American businessman on board a Pan Am flight to Japan. His Holiness was en route to a world Buddhist conference in Tokyo from India, where he has lived since fleeing Tibet and the Communists in 1959. Seated in the "frequent traveler" section (though it is only the fourth time he has left India), he told his companion that he had received a Japanese visa on one condition: stick to religious activities. "What is there to worry about...
...next seat and getting the same service had paid only a fraction as much. Indeed, in August, travelers on bargain tickets accounted for precisely 56.3% of the seats sold by the airlines, compared with 44.8% the year before. Trying to appease this irritated full-fare minority, American, Pan Am, TWA and British Airways have announced new sections in coach that are designed especially to assure business travelers that, as an American ad says, "you get what you pay for." Following similar three-class plans put in earlier by Continental Airlines and British Caledonian, these airlines will maintain their existing first...
Howard Bromberg, '80, captain of this year's ('A') chess team, was able to salvage one win from Vardi, Bromberg said he is optimistic about the chances of the team this year, both in local tournaments and in the Pan-American tournament...
...against guard posts in widely scattered cities and towns: in the capital itself, Managua; in Masaya, 20 miles southeast of the capital; in the pleasant coffee town of Diriamba, 28 miles south; in León, Nicaragua's second largest city; in Chinandega; and in Esteli, on the Pan American Highway in the north...