Word: ragtag
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Gomez is not the only one wondering what is going on in the sprawling, demoralized empire controlled by Eastern's corporate parent, Texas Air. Over the past two years Chairman Frank Lorenzo has fashioned a ragtag collection of disparate and sometimes dying carriers into the largest U.S. airline company (1986 revenues: $4.4 billion). Besides Eastern, Texas Air runs Continental, which has absorbed New York Air, Frontier and People Express. All told, Lorenzo and his lieutenants oversee 628 jets and 72,500 employees, ferrying 94 million passengers (roughly the combined populations of France and Spain) on more than 1 million flights...
...Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi sent extra troops to Sri Lanka early this month to help end fighting by the island's Tamil separatists, the assumption was that the operation would be relatively quick and painless. After all, India's soldiers outnumbered the roughly 2,000 members of the ragtag Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam more than 3 to 1, and had the backing of Sri Lankan President Junius R. Jayewardene. But the offensive dragged on, offering little hope that the guerrillas will give up their four-year battle for an independent Tamil homeland...
American foreign policy created the contras, a ragtag bunch of political-outs who seem to have more support in Miami than in Managua. The Sandinistas led a successful and legitimate revolution against a heinous dictatorship. Their government is recognized as sovereign by the majority of people in that country as well as the majority of nations in the world. It should by recognized as an equal nation by our nation...
...field a team if it comes to a strike," says Tex Schramm, president of the Dallas Cowboys. "I think we can put on quality football games." Doug Allen, assistant executive director of the players union, understandably disagrees: "Without our players on the field, it will be a ragtag, shoddy product." TV would hardly pay full price ($476 million) for renegades, and the affections of the fans are still frayed from the last unpleasantness...
...company and ready to lead their men to revolt. Elma (Mary McDonnell), a young widow, will stand up against the goons who board at her home. And her 14-year-old son (Will Oldham), a prodigy preacher, will update New Testament parables till Jesus sounds like Joe Hill. A ragtag army, but with the organizer's help they may actually...