Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy's call brought out the dreamers, the tinkerers, the organizers, the suppliers. Lyndon Johnson never tired of telling the story of how Americans had found Teflon "for your old fryin' pan" on the way to the moon. But there was heavy counterpoint to this melody of invention. Nikita Khrushchev raged at Kennedy in Vienna in 1961. The Berlin Wall went up. The Soviets tested their huge hydrogen bomb, the one U.S. scientists had said they would not have for years...
More recently, labor costs grew too quickly. While Pan Am and United have withstood expensive strikes in order to win cost concessions from their workers, Eastern has kept flying by allowing salaries to spiral upward. Since 1979, in fact, pay for the carrier's employees has risen by 50% or more. One result: Eastern's pilots make an average of $112,535, while their counterparts at People Express are paid...
...hope they let us have some say in choosingthe new masters," said Matherite Vivian T. Pan'88. "I'm sorry the Herlihys are leaving...
...private auction in Washington, the Administration sells the National Park system to General Dynamics Corp. and the Supreme Court--along with a 25-year supply of black robes--to Carl Icahn, and sells a 99-year lease on the Department of Health and Human Services to a pan-Arab investment consortium. The total proceeds...
...pizza--than-crusted, and served in a large square pan--represents a perfect balance of dough, sauce, and spice. The flavor is imperfectionable...