Word: suited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other airlines followed suit, although at week's end Midway | and Southwest Airlines were still resisting the increases and Eastern had raised only some of its fares. Many airlines have consolidated their market share in recent years by buying smaller companies and aggressively cutting prices. Now, with air traffic up a surprising 8% last month over a year ago, the carriers are testing to see whether rising demand can withstand higher prices...
Inevitably, there is culinary madness this season, with no fewer than three astrological cookbooks -- perhaps the perfect gifts for Nancy Reagan's new Bel Air kitchen. With such loony titles as Cosmic Cuisine (Harper & Row; $19.95), they stress the importance of choosing foods to suit one's sun sign. But while one claims that Cancers prefer a dish of spaghetti with a strong taste of the Mediterranean, another says they're inclined toward turnips. Alas, those looking for clear celestial guidance will find that their stars are crossed...
...designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell is constantly ordering, pushing, scolding and hectoring, much like a nagging...
Opponents of the garage charge that in granting The Athenaeum Group a permit for the development, the city violated a federal freeze on new parking spaces in Cambridge and have filed a suit against both city and developers. If successful, their suit could make illegal every parking facility built in the city since...
...that the bureau had systematically assigned Hispanic agents to low-level duties known as the "taco circuit." The court warned that it might impose reforms on the agency's promotions system. Now FBI supervisors may be making matters worse: lawyers for 20 of the 311 agents involved in the suit went to court last week to charge that a number of those involved in the case had been removed from their duties or harassed in other ways...