Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PALMORE argues that in a campus-wide election, "Candidates would have to stand on a platform that could serve as a working agenda for the council throughout the year." I'm skeptical that the campaign would be conducted on such a high plane. On the contrary, I'm inclined to believe that the election would be no more than an exchange of slogans and name-calling...
...particular crowd pleaser for Rhein was an observation about airplane bathrooms. "When you're going to the bathroom on a plane, here's a question, where does it go?" Rhein asked. "If it's staying in the plane, whose luggage is it next to?...`That used to be a blue suitcase,'" he quipped...
Cash-strapped Pan Am, by contrast, cannot afford to purchase new jets. ! Instead, the airline is overhauling its 35 747s. But keeping older planes in good running order is also costly. Pan Am spends an average $815 in maintenance costs for every hour that a plane is carrying passengers, vs. $377 for Delta, which has a newer fleet and advanced maintenance equipment. Some experts and airline employees have contended that cash-strapped airlines will be tempted to skimp on maintenance. But when the FAA conducted an intensive probe of one such carrier, Eastern, no serious faults were found...
...Peter Kalikow, who bought the ailing Post from press lord Rupert Murdoch last year. Kalikow, 46, admits he did not know much about publishing when he took over the paper. "When you fly on an airplane," he says in his thick Queens accent, "you don't know how the plane works. You fly on it because it's going to take you someplace." So far, however, the Post has been speeding Kalikow toward a destination all too familiar to his predecessors: debt city...
...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...