Word: philadelphia
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...frequent flight delays. At Dole's request and with the promise of immunity from antitrust prosecution, representatives of 45 airlines met for four days in the ballroom of Washington's Westin Hotel. They proceeded to rewrite the summer flight schedules at sorely congested airports serving five major cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, Dallas and Atlanta. At Newark airport, for example, the airlines moved 13 of the 57 scheduled arrivals and departures out of the hectic 6 p.m.-to-7 p.m. time slot. Atlanta's notoriously busy Hartsfield Airport will benefit from a total of 203 schedule changes...
More recent studies suggest other pluses. In a 1984 Philadelphia study of patients about to undergo dental surgery, some were hypnotized, others were told to look at an aquarium full of fish, and the rest sat quietly for 20 minutes. The first two groups experienced the least discomfort. Surprisingly, watching fish was as effective as being hypnotized. Why animals are so soothing is still a mystery. Psychiatrist Aaron Katcher of the University of Pennsylvania speculates that stroking animals and talking to them stimulates < the brain's production of its pleasure chemicals, the endorphins...
...November of 1986, protesters screaming and writhing on the floor forced the relocation of a speech at the Law School by Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode. Six Harvard policemen escorted Goode out of the auditorium, and officials announced the new location for the speech. Officials excluded the protestors from the new auditorium, and Goode spoke uninterrupted...
...preposterous as Ron Guidry lingering on - his tractor over a matter of $50,000 while Steinbrenner replaces him with a pitcher (Tommy John, 46) three years older than Hall of Famer-elect Catfish Hunter. Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson, who ultimately retrieved Morris but lost Catcher Lance Parrish to Philadelphia, is typically philosophical. "Babe Ruth is buried in Baltimore ((Hawthorne, N.Y., to be irrelevantly accurate))," he says, spitting, "and the game goes...
...corner of the economy. Chrysler's agreement to buy AMC was only the most stunning of a series of takeover bids and pacts that swept through the boardrooms of airline companies, book publishers, casino operators, shoemakers and retailers. Says Thom Brown, chief of investment policy at Butcher & Singer, a Philadelphia-based investment-banking firm: "There are so many deals in the works that it's hard to keep a cap on them...