Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upstart airlines are merely sweeping up the crumbs abandoned by the majors, carrying 15% of the passengers for less than 10% of the gross. But at some point, perhaps this summer, the fledglings' growth will run smack up against the majors' need to protect or expand revenues. When that happens, says Michael Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research Corp. in Golden, Colorado, the skies may grow turbulent again. "If the majors find their core market being taken [by the upstarts]," he says, "they will turn on them." Already Northwest and American have started to discount. Rising fuel prices could turn...
...hard not to say, All right, let's go through this again. The parent is the grownup, right? The one with the duty to love and protect the distinctly different one, called child; the grownup is the one who says no. Understood? It is not enough for a child to want something. The parent is supposed to decide whether it's a good idea--whether, above all, it is safe...
...Although the changes to the Great Hall will be extensive, Harvard has taken steps to protect the historically and architecturally significant features of the building," Borenstein wrote...
...French troops from the multinational Implementation Force arrived and sent them scattering out a rear door. After the troops left, though, the looters returned and finished the job, pausing for swigs from the brandy bottle. The Oprhals were dismayed by how little the ifor patrols had done to protect the neighborhood in the previous week. They had roamed about, but rarely intervened directly. "All they had to do," said Rabija, "is show up two or three times a day and cock their weapons, and all the bandits would run away...
...Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, but he lost to Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. His angry and emotional breakdown in New Hampshire, railing against a story critical of his wife, may have cost him the nomination. As a Senator from 1959 to 1980, Muskie pushed for laws to protect the environment, earning him the nickname "Mr. Clean". After a brief stint as President Carter's Secretary of State in 1980, Muskie retired from public life to join the law firm of Chadbourne and Parke. he would have been 82 on Thursday...