Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carriers are not completely insensitive to the groans of hungry passengers. As they compete for frequent flyers, some companies are finding that decent food can help promote passenger loyalty. Alaska Airlines has started advertising that its "plane food isn't plain food." Researchers at Chicago-based United sort through the garbage to see what is regularly returned uneaten. One result: the airline in March will stop serving canned fruit cocktail on all coach flights. In April American will introduce a Heart Healthy menu approved by the American Heart Association...
...Moscow conference made plain the huge pitfalls of a superpower crisis in the nuclear age. "The horrifying extent to which we all misunderstood what was going on," said McNamara, "is the absolutely fundamental lesson for the future. Given what's at stake, crises are too dangerous to manage. They must be avoided...
...Satanic Verses have ever seen it, much less opened it. Their fury, and the timorousness of government officials fearing violent uproars, has been prompted by one accusation: that the novel contains a blasphemous portrait of the Prophet Muhammad and thus amounts to a terrible insult to Islam. The plain, simple truth is that the novel does nothing of the sort, but only those who consent to read the thing will discover this for themselves...
...Vance Packard's latest venture in pop sociology, which is centered on slapdash but often tantalizing interviews with 30 of the nation's richest citizens (average net worth in 1987: $425 million). As the author presents them, these ultrarich tend to be banal in thought and sometimes defiantly plain Jane in tastes. "What's better than meat-loaf?" asks Texas developer Walter W. Caruth Jr., whose wife (despite his $600 million) does all the cooking. Surprisingly few of Packard's subjects try to live up to their imposing annual incomes. Leonard Shoen, the founder of U- Haul, says he could...
...have two kinds of correspondents here at TIME: those stationed in bureaus across the globe, and you, our readers, who are often illuminated, amused or just plain alarmed enough by a TIME story to write us. A case in point: our issue naming the endangered earth Planet of the Year. As of last week, the story has drawn 1,687 letters, the largest outpouring of mail for a Man of the Year issue since TIME selected the Ayatullah Khomeini...