Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers on a flight. Overbooking is a product of fare wars; because airlines are collecting less per seat, they want to ensure a full load to make a profit. The practice of overbooking crops up in other businesses when managers want to make the most of a prime-time rush of customers. At peak times popular hotels and restaurants sometimes bump customers who show up even modestly late for their reservations...
...called program traders can blitz the market in seconds with orders representing many thousands of shares of a broad spectrum of stocks. On Friday morning those orders seemed merely to be building on the previous day's historic 51-point climb. The driving force behind that record-breaking market rush, says Richard McCabe, a vice president of the Merrill Lynch investment firm, was "big institutional investors. They do not want to miss another advance...
...signs of Spain's new international standing are abundant. Along the stately, tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, a boulevard that runs through Madrid's main business district, a rush by foreign banks and other multinational companies to rent or buy scarce office space has helped raise real estate prices 20% over the past year. U.S., European and Japanese businessmen throng Spanish golf courses and savor Madrid's night life...
...rush to deploy the B-1B, the Air Force went into production while the aircraft was still undergoing major design modifications. Even before the first bombers became operational last fall at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, there were portents of trouble. The plane's fuel tanks, built directly into the wings without rubber bladders, leak jet fuel. Early flight tests revealed problems caused by loading cruise missile launchers and antiradiation pods onto the original airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading...
...leaked Senate report provides fresh insights into the Iranscam puzzle. -- Presidential hopefuls rush the 1988 campaign kickoff. -- A poll for TIME shows that Iranscam has hurt the Republicans. -- A provocative book on Martin Luther King and a television special on civil rights shed light on the man and the movement...