Word: pans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal," he told TIME'S Martha Smilgis. "But then you'd get in a winning groove-a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong. The choreography was a mutual effort: Hermes Pan, Ginger, even Adele contributed. And of course Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance...
...multimillion-dollar estate in Riyadh, Sheik Abdul Aziz Tawajiri, a commander of the Saudi Internal security force under Prince Abdullah, delivered an emotional warning. Its essence: Saudi Arabia's aspirations to pan-Arab leadership are incompatible with close Saudi-American friendship, so long as the U.S. remains Israel's chief supporter. Within Saudi Arabia, warned Tawajiri, "a generation gap is developing. Perceptions of the U.S. are changing, slowly perhaps, but for the worse." As most of his ten sons sat silently near by, the sheik, who is in his early 70s, asserted that they "have sizzling arguments with me. They...
...less than half of what most other airlines have been charging for even their economy-class tickets. But suddenly, Sir Freddie finds that he is facing stiff competition from one of the very airlines that his cutthroat pricing policies had siphoned business from in the first place: Pan American World Airways. Under its new chairman, C. Edward Acker, the loss-plagued air carrier has decided to go all-out to fill its planes and boost revenues. Thus Pan Am announced earlier this month that it will offer regular coach seats across the North Atlantic for a mere $261. Other major...
...price war is only the latest in a series of headaches for Laker, and the outspoken Sir Freddie has begun to sound as cranky and befuddled as many of the competitors he undercut to get a share of the North Atlantic route four years ago. Sniped he of the Pan Am action: "It is nothing less than suicidal marketing that could endanger the fabric of the airline industry as a whole...
...thirds full on average, Laker Airways has been a consistent moneymaker since the company's founding in 1966. Last week a Laker spokesman dismissed the possibility that the airline would soon be forced to raise fares to compensate for currency losses. Said the spokesman in a dig at Pan Am: "We have no need to put up fares. Unlike some others, we are making a good operating profit." But the question is, for how much longer...