Word: sourfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whatever the fact, Khashoggi had to be brought back into the arms deals in 1986, when the U.S. began shipping weapons from its own stockpiles and once more needed the Saudi to supply bridge financing. Khashoggi rounded up investors who put $15 million into a May shipment that went sour, leaving them in the hole (see chart...
CAPTION: A DEAL THAT WENT SOUR...
...close calls in the sky are by far the most worrisome trend in the nation's overburdened, understaffed air-safety system. The chilling reality of what can happen when luck turns sour was illustrated last Aug. 31 over Cerritos, Calif., when an Aeromexico DC-9 and a private Piper aircraft collided in the congested "birdcage" of controlled airspace around Los Angeles International Airport, killing 82 people. Many aviation experts like Duffy fear that what is still one of the safest air-transportation systems in the world is slipping dangerously as air traffic grows relentlessly through the unfettered competition of deregulation...
...strengthen its No. 2 position in Texas by acquiring Interfirst, the state's fourth largest bank. Said Fronterhouse, who will head the combined company: "This is a bank made by Texans for Texans." One challenge will be to help Interfirst dig out from under a $1.1 billion pile of sour energy loans and depressed real estate holdings...
...were doing really well and then things went sour," Abbey said. "In the mile relay there was a bad handoff and Chris [Robinson] got spiked. We realize now that we can't take some events for granted. We have to try to get as many points as possible...