Word: skirmishes
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...spark for the latest skirmish is People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the annals of aviation. People is slashing most of its fares this week by 30% to 60%. Passengers can fly from the carrier's Newark base to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other Florida cities for $69, to Los Angeles and San Francisco for $99, to Minneapolis for $49 and to Greensboro or Raleigh, N.C., for $29. By changing planes in Newark, People Express customers can fly from Chicago to Florida or from Boston to Houston for $99. People's biggest bargain of all is a nonstop flight...
...what will amount to a propaganda skirmish, Gorbachev will charge the U.S. with abusing American Indians, blacks and other minorities and attack America for not providing full employment and national health programs...
...users who want to protect it, by governments that want to control it, by pornographers who want to exploit its freedoms, by parents and teachers who want to make it a safe and useful place for kids. The Canter-and-Siegel affair, say Net observers, was just the opening skirmish in the larger battle for the soul of the Internet...
Donato declined to deem the skirmish premeditated, saying “I think all teams try to make sure there’s a lot of traffic on the goalie and get pucks there and make his night a difficult one, but I don’t think there was any out-and-out intent to [hurt Grumet-Morris...
Donato declined to deem the skirmish premeditated, saying “I think all teams try to make sure there’s a lot of traffic on the goalie and get pucks there and make his night a difficult one, but I don’t think there was any out-and-out intent to [hurt Grumet-Morris...