Word: starting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's words, the present energy situation is the moral equivalent of war, then Bob Hope should start making tours of the gas stations and singing Tanks for the Memories...
...tornadoes sounds about as unlikely a sport as herding partridges on horseback. But when conditions are right, the NSSL sends out several vans packed with photographers, meteorologists and equipment, assorted airplanes and platoons of experts in hope of harvesting storm data. When people in Texas or Oklahoma or Kansas start running for their lives from a tornado, Moore and his colleagues are usually running full speed into...
Before the accident, the planemaker was looking good. It had more than $750 million in cash and, after its slow start, its ten-year, $1 billion investment in the DC-10 was about to pay off. The company needs 400 sales of the $40 million plane to cover costs and start making profits. It has already delivered 281, received firm orders for 49, and taken options-which buyers could still cancel-for 50. Last year the Douglas commercial-plane side, which McDonnell had acquired in 1967, lost $60.3 million, mainly because of unrecovered DC-10 costs. This was more than...
...Airlines flying the DC-10 are losing $5 million a day because of its decertification and grounding right at the start of the peak summer travel season. If the suspension goes on long enough, many may sue McDonnell Douglas, but, again, insurance would probably cover most of the bill...
...start, one imagines that this movie is a parody remake of a beloved old movie (based in turn on the even more antique romantic novel by Anthony Hope). Doubtless that is what everyone originally intended. But either the story is so strong and appealing that it resists parody, or else the moviemakers did not, in the end, have the heart to tear its delicious old passions to. tatters-who can say? Anyway, the picture that has emerged is a mild diversion, agreeable but not very funny and not very exciting. Chucklesome is probably the word...