Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board a DC-10 bound for Miami from Manchester, England, were stunned to hear over a loudspeaker that their flight had been canceled. An Airbus A300, already airborne toward Tenerife, reversed course and flew back to Manchester. At London's Gatwick Airport, stewardesses and ticket agents openly wept. Sir Freddie Laker, the swashbuckling British entrepreneur who had revolutionized transatlantic travel by slashing air fares, had abruptly announced that he was liquidating his debt-laden airline. Said one Laker counter attendant: "It's hit everyone, mate-like a smack in the mouth...
...Sir Freddie, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in June 1978, tried in vain to get help. Last Sir Freddie Thursday he phoned Iain Sproat, Britain's Under-Secretary for Trade, to warn that without government aid, his airline would crash. Later that day Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher discussed Laker's plight with several Cabinet members, but chose not to bail out the carrier. Early next morning, at a tense meeting with his board of directors at Gatwick, Laker called it quits...
Laker thus becomes the first victim of the airfare wars that he originally started. Fierce price competition is also threatening the solvency of American carriers such as Pan Am and Braniff. Last summer Laker admitted that the airline business had become "a hell of a poker game." Sir Freddie, and his planes, will be missed by thousands of budget travelers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...that long and whose socks don't match, even if it can read gold watches. Anyone who tries to engage in thoughtful evaluation of the material before him is likely to be rudely interrupted by Dan himself, sauntering up the aisle, patting his shoulder, and demanding, "Now your, sir--you're a blacksmith with only one apprentice, and your work doesn't suffer, does...
...Sir," I continued, "the first goal was scored by Greg Britz. And the second, which you just barely missed, was scored by Greg Olson Harvard is the home team Harvard is ahead...