Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion for Boeing. But while McDonnell Douglas earned a profit of $109 million and Boeing $103 million, Lockheed netted only $39 million. Reason: an operating loss of $125 million on the airbus. The news this year is no better. In the first six months, Lockheed's profits rose to $25.5 million, from $22.2 million a year earlier, but they would have been three times as large without a $52.7 million TriStar write-off. Lockheed's share of the commercial jet aircraft market is a puny 2.7%, compared with McDonnell Douglas' 28% and a fat 52% for Boeing...
...space shuttle's historic test began at dawn, when a cherry picker lifted Pilot Fred Haise Jr., 43, a civilian, and Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and rose into the air with the Enterprise clinging to its back like a mating insect. Accompanied by five silver T-38 chase planes that drifted around the pair like pilot fish escorting a shark, the odd couple climbed slowly to 8,100 meters (27,000 ft.). At that altitude...
...entered the monastery of Kykko in the Troodos Mountains at 13 and took the religious name Makarios, which means "blessed" in Greek. He chose to become a "black" or celibate priest rather than one of the "white" priests, who are free to marry but cannot be consecrated bishops. Makarios rose fast: he was sent to Athens to study law and theology, later went to Boston University. In 1948 he was summoned home to turbulent Cyprus to become a bishop...
While friends and congressional supporters applauded, Jimmy Carter whipped out a black pen and scrawled his signature across an inch-thick bill. With that simple ceremony in the White House Rose Garden last week, the President brought into being the Department of Energy, the first new Cabinet agency to be established since the creation of the Department of Transportation in 1966. In another Rose Garden ceremony at week's end, James Schlesinger, whose confirmation hearings were held even before the department formally existed, was sworn in as the first Secretary of Energy...
...profit, the New York Times Co. is now on Wall Street's goodbuy lists. After several years of see-saw profits (net income was $13.6 million in 1972. $20.3 mllion in 1974, only $12.7 million in 1975), the firm last announced that earnings for the first half of 1977 rose 89% to $12 million on record revenues of $244 million. Barring unforseen trouble, the house of Sulzberger is on the way to its best year ever...