Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supremely important because, even if the growth in air travel levels out to 6% a year, U.S. lines will need to borrow $56 billion by 1985 to replace their aging jets. Lenders will tend to favor the lines that stand to benefit the most from deregulation, meaning the bigger, richer carriers. Though the U.S. certainly needs more competition and fare flexibility in the air, the specter of unbridled price cutting and route grabbing frightens many financial experts, who fear that some lines will not be able to earn the returns needed to justify large loans. One airline financial officer calls...
...week in the campaign against inflation. Barry Bosworth, chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, repeated that inflation will not be slowed until pay increases in major union settlements decline to 7%, from 10% in recent contracts. But 13 railway unions were busy wrapping up a much richer pact...
...endangered, and the river trip marked the kickoff of a joint public and private campaign to save them. "These birds are valuable, important even to the people who never come here to look at them," said Andrus. "They are wild and free and make us all a little richer and freer just by existing...
There are richer men in the U.S., but Mellon's wealth is nonetheless so vast as to be scarcely understandable in ordinary terms. The value of his stocks, bonds and other measurable holdings−particularly in family-dominated companies such as Gulf Oil, Alcoa and Koppers−is probably well over $400 million. But there is no way of putting a figure on his other possessions: the 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, the retreats on Antigua and Cape Cod, the town houses in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., the stables of racing horses in the U.S. and Britain...
...their shape. No director has total control, or needs to stay in total control, and I don't think a director should want to--unless it's a film, where ultimately he does have the final say. The actors expand your concept in many ways; they make a production richer and more personal. And then when the audience comes, and the actor gains the actual experience of performing for them, then the director's work is through...