Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeding to get dressed in colors and fabrics that bear no relation to one another, he heads downstairs to the kitchen. It is Saturday; his wife is still in bed; he must eat quickly to get to Emerson 105 for his 10 a.m. lecture. He takes out a frying pan and two eggs. He cannot, however, figure out how to turn on the stove. He flicks the garbage disposal on and off, and turns the dishwasher dials around, but to no avail. Finally, he yells, "Honey, how the hell does the stove work," and gets his wife...
...airline industry has swiftly consolidated through a whirlwind of mergers, many travelers have wondered whether less competition would mean higher ticket prices. The answer: not necessarily. In the past two weeks a new fare war has erupted among several major carriers. Continental, Pan Am and TWA are offering fares that run as low as $89 between New York City and San Francisco and $39 between Denver and Salt Lake City. Those prices are reduced as much as 25% from existing discount fares...
...Government agency to ground 61 commuter and air-taxi carriers for varying periods (some permanently) in 1986, as well as 60 the year before. In its most spectacular gesture, the FAA in March fined Eastern Air Lines $9.5 million for , 78,372 alleged safety and maintenance violations. Pan Am has been jolted by FAA fines of $2 million, while American was assessed $1.5 million...
Considering the fickleness of the American palate and the competition for food dollars, it is no wonder that 1986 saw so many trendy flashes in the pan, as well as on the plate. California and Southwest cuisines, so much in vogue last January, have already begun to pall. As the year ended, lip service was being paid to such buzz words as country, peasant, cuisine bourgeoise and even meat and potatoes. Meanwhile, freshness took on new meaning as lazy cooks opted for unfrozen, simmer-in-bag prepared dishes. And with rabbit the In meat of the year, the most worried...
...Libya in April, the masked face of terrorism was mostly absent from the world's airports and alleyways. Five months later, though, the threat was back with a bloody vengeance. Bombs erupted in downtown Paris, men with machine guns stormed a synagogue in Istanbul, four Palestinian hijackers held a Pan American plane hostage for 18 hours in Karachi, and 17 more foreigners were kidnaped in Lebanon. Many leaders looked to another kind of pressure -- that of economic sanctions -- to push the white-dominated government in South Africa toward reform. But neither trade embargoes nor the pullout of Western firms seemed...