Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future U.S. air travelers. He called for putting plainclothes guards on U.S. planes flying abroad and advised Americans not to travel through Athens International Airport. Within 24 hours the Senate appropriated $2 million to more than triple the number of marshals (even though many experts question their value) and Pan Am suspended flights to Athens. The measures, though tangential to the current crisis, reflected the rising concern with airport security in an age of global terrorism...
...third worst airline disaster in history, exceeded only by the 1977 collision of KLM and Pan American 747s in the Spanish Canary Islands that killed 582, and the 1974 crash of a Turkish DC-10 near Paris that left 345 dead. More alarmingly, however, the sudden and inexplicable plunge of the Air India craft had the earmarks of terrorism. "It is most likely a bomb," said Mike Ramsden, editor in chief of the aviation magazine Flight International. "A bomb is the most likely reason for a catastrophe, so sudden and complete, to an aircraft with a very fine safety record...
...April the perennially struggling Pan Am, weakened by years of losses and a strike by ground employees in March, sold its Pacific routes to United for $750 million...
Airlines that fail to slash costs during the next several years may wind up bankrupt, as Air Florida did last year, or be forced into a merger with more aggressive partners. One of the most likely candidates for a takeover, or even demise, is Pan Am, which has lost some $770 million since 1981. Though the company bought more time for itself by selling its Pacific routes to United, it has almost nothing left to dispose of without going out of business...
...knew what it was getting in Serra's commission. It saw artist renderings and models. It did not expect a cute bronze of Peter Pan. Serra's massive walls and propped assemblies of steel and lead plate are among the most familiar images in recent American sculpture -- blue-collar minimalism, a pugnacious combination of muteness with extreme manipulations of space. Nobody could call his work accessible, but there is no denying his influence on other artists. To take only one example, the black granite notch of Maya Ying Lin's monument to the Viet Nam dead in Washington...