Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poindexter rose steadily at the NSC, finally taking over day-to-day | operations as deputy to National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. The Admiral won some brief glory, at least within the White House, for coordinating the U.S. capture of the terrorists who had seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Though North claimed credit for devising and executing the operation, colleagues say Poindexter deserves the greater honor. They vividly remember him sitting coolly at his desk munching a sandwich from the White House mess and sipping a glass of red wine while directing the interception by Navy jets of the Egyptian...
...fact, will the entire industry. Reports of near midair collisions in the U.S. jumped to 840 in 1986, from 758 the previous year. Potentially serious errors by air-traffic controllers rose to 141 in June, up 50% from the same month in 1986. "I pray a lot," says Valerie Jones of Basking Ridge, N.J., a passenger last week on a Bermuda-to-Newark flight. "You just can't take anything for granted anymore...
...first five months of this year, consumer complaints to the Transportation Department about poor airline service reached 9,812, an 81% increase over the same period last year. The number of flight delays of 15 minutes or more at the 22 busiest U.S. airports, as compiled by the FAA, rose by 13% in the first three months of 1987 compared with the first quarter of last year. Says Nozomu Kaneda, of Kingston, N.Y., an IBM technician who flies often: "Delays occur so frequently that I feel lucky whenever one lasts less than an hour." A Government study of service...
Ironically, anxiety and irritation about air travel are rising just as the industry is entering a period of robust financial health. Passenger traffic on U.S. carriers reached a record 418 million in 1986, up from 382 million the year before. During the first half of 1987, traffic rose another 15% or so. Wall Street analysts expect the 22 major U.S. carriers to earn operating profits of as much as $3.5 billion this year, far exceeding the previous record of $2.4 billion in 1984. Even TWA, a perennially struggling carrier now run by Corporate Raider Carl Icahn, is expected to enjoy...
Director of Administration: Rose L. Epstein...