Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson can repeat the past, then it can put the pin in Princeton's bubble...
...beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Thanks, F. Scott. Pass me another...
Even so, consumer advocates fear that with the scarcity of competing ; carriers at many airports, surviving airlines will not hesitate to roll prices back up. At Danforth's urging, the General Accounting Office is currently comparing changes in airfares over the past five years at 53 airports to determine whether carriers that dominate traffic at certain hubs are jacking up their prices to exorbitant levels...
Given the abysmal track record of start-up airlines over the past ten years, investors are reluctant to enter the airline business except as buyers of existing carriers. Says wheeler-dealer Donald Trump: "There is still room for entrepreneurs in the industry." Trump's nearly final $365 million agreement to buy Eastern's shuttle operations was put in jeopardy again last week when Phoenix-based America West Airlines offered to pay some $25 million more for the shuttle, plus $335 million for ten additional Eastern aircraft. Northwest, meanwhile, is trying to fight off a takeover by Denver oilman Marvin Davis...
...Britain during the 1980s and the Republican one in America, and for all Thatcher's alleged admiration of Reagan, in an important way the two societies have changed in opposite directions. Thatcher has taught the British people self- discipline. Reagan and Bush have taught Americans self-indulgence. After the past three American presidential elections, it is unthinkable for an ambitious politician to call on the citizenry -- or any sizable subset of it -- to make the slightest sacrifice for the good of society or its own future prosperity. Thatcher, by contrast, positively delights in delivering bad news and stern sermons. "After...