Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this pan-generational enthusiasm fires up an industry for equipment and clothes that is reckoned to be worth, overall, about half a billion dollars a year. It says something about the devotion the sport engenders that with such big bucks at stake, skateboarding remains a pretty straight-ahead endeavor. It has its own magazines (Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding are the most successful), its own lingo, its own half-mystical lore and its own concepts of < cool. No thrasher excessively applauds another for an especially rad move. Miss a trick, and another skater will say, with offhand censure, "That was totally...
...years. Many airlines have bounced back, so that the industry as a whole should post operating profits of more than $2 billion in 1988, predicts David Sylvester of Kidder Peabody. But not all airlines are equally profitable. American, Delta, and United are well into the black, but Eastern and Pan Am are still racking up huge losses...
...September of that year, an American leasing agent bought the now middle- aged airliner for approximately $6 million and rented it to financially ailing Pan American World Airways for $130,000 a month. Based in Berlin, No. 19921 spent the next four years making short runs to Frankfurt, Munich and other West German cities. Though the plane was sold twice again during that period to other lessors, Pan Am continued to rent it. From 1986 until last September, the 737 made New York's Kennedy airport its home, flying daily routes to such cities as Cleveland and Pittsburgh...
...After Pan Am turned it in for a newer plane last November, No. 19921 was leased to a Honduran airline, SAHSA, for about $130,000 a month. SAHSA shares the plane with another Honduran carrier, TAN. Based these days in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, the aging airliner, a veteran of approximately 65,000 flights, carries about 1,000 passengers a day on several routes, north to Miami and Guatemala, and south to El Salvador and Panama. During 20 years of service, No. 19921 has outlived two of its airlines: PSA and PWA both merged into other companies...
...both MIT and Tufts Universities and choose not to participate in the IFC. His statements concerning our alleged "hazing policy" are completely erroneous and blazingly reflective of the spurious notions which pervade the IFC and our campuses in general. Kappa Alpha Psi, like all members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, has a standing "antihazing policy," which has been part of fraternal law since...