Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desert sun, stand five immense L-1011 TriStar jetliners, each worth $23 million. At first glance, they seem ready for delivery. The lettering on two of them spells out the name of Court Line, a British charter airline. The other three wear the bright symbol of Pacific Southwest Airlines' "grinning birds"-a broad smile painted under their striped cockpits. But Court went bankrupt in 1974, and PSA's business was so bad that ungrinning executives could not take the L-1011s. So Lockheed has been stuck with the five planes, which are parked on a ramp awaiting buyers...
...will be staged at Seefeld, 15 miles to the northwest of the city; three miles south, at Igls and Patscherkofel, tourists can take in the bobsled, luge and men's downhill. The other alpine races will be held at Axamer Lizum, a 25-minute bus ride to the southwest from downtown...
From the extension building on the southwest corner of the Westwood campus, Frandson, 50, presides over a growing domain with an annual enrollment of 128,000 students and a $12 million budget. The bustling prosperity of the extension school confirms Frandson's belief that each of the school's 4,255 courses should be titled and designed like a new television series-to grab the viewer's attention. In the extension school, therefore, a course in American history from 1940 to 1950 is called "The Cultural Milieu of a Decade of War and Peace: a nostalgic reappraisal...
...southern terminus at Gravina Point, the gas would be liquefied by lowering its temperature to -260° F. and shipped in special tankers to Point Conception, Calif., near Santa Barbara. There the fuel would be heated back to a gas, then pumped into existing pipelines for distribution throughout the Southwest. This arrangement would reduce the Southwest's dependence on natural gas from Texas, which could then flow in greater quantities to gas-pinched homes and factories in the Midwest and the East...
...TORTUGA by Peter Matthiessen. With much dialogue and a minimum of description, nine flawed and simple men hunt turtles in the southwest Caribbean and become actors in an elemental drama...