Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Problems from earlier takeovers mounted in Houston, where Texas Air chairman Frank Lorenzo, who has been battling his workers, confirmed last week that he may sell part or all of Continental Airlines to raise badly needed cash. Texas Air borrowed heavily for the 1986 purchase of Continental's sister carrier, Eastern Air Lines, which is mired in bankruptcy proceedings and a seven-month- long strike by its mechanics...
...investigators, however, did not check out another possibility: that the detonator had been placed inside one of the powder bags before it reached the turret's gun level. Many sailors had access to the bags while they were stored in the turret's powder magazine. Hartwig's angry sister Kathy called the board's findings "obscene and incredible" and threatened to sue the Navy...
...tried to tease some Michigan fans--on the theory that Minnesota and Michigan are basically the same--but they ignored me. I then pressured my little sister into posing as a Minnesota fan, but she changed her mind in the middle of my victory dance...
...remember walking with my sister next to a horse-drawn cart. High up on the hay my grandfather was lying on a linen sheet. He was paralyzed. When the air raid started, the whole patiently marching crowd was suddenly filled with panic. People sought safety in ditches, in bushes, in the potato fields. On the now empty road there was only the cart on which my grandfather was lying. He could see the planes coming at him, how suddenly they dived down. When the planes disappeared, we returned to the cart and my mother wiped the sweat off Grandfather...
...tremendously driven, and I wonder how much of that results from being the twin sister of Dear Abby...