Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like mammoth prehistoric birds, Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines face a threat of extinction because of changing conditions, notably a fourfold rise in fuel prices and a deep slump in international air travel. Having failed in an attempt to wangle Government subsidies to keep them aloft, the two carriers last week unveiled the first move in their strategy for survival: a far-reaching, five-year swap of overseas routes that would drastically reduce head-on competition between the American giants and, they hope, allow them to fly planes somewhat more fully loaded (though each would still...
...frying pan...
...bound to reproduce old music intact. He sometimes uses orchestration and can find new emphasis in a tune by changing the usual arrangement. Thus a World War II song called Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer, which he sings low and slow, loses its Tin Pan Alley patriotism and becomes plaintive, full of battle fear. An old calypso tune, F.D.R. in Trinidad, is delivered with careful ingenuousness, and Cooder brightly, as if inadvertently, stresses the irony that time has worked on the lyrics: "Mr. Cordell Hull in attendance/ They took part in a peace conference/ To stop...
Another thing Parker is also considering entering are the national trials to represent the U.S. in the Pan American games held in April. However, Parker said there are serious obstacles against Harvard's participation in the games. "The team would have to take two weeks off from school during our racing season," he said...
...Pan Am die. We have a number of U.S. carriers that are fit and able to take over those certificates of public convenience and necessity...