Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sabena jet near Brussels. In 1970, 30 members of the Wichita State University football team died when their chartered jet hit a mountainside in Colorado. Seven years later, 14 University of Evansville basketball players, returning home from a game in Nashville, died when their DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
...their return flight to New York, Ghotbzadeh invited them to the Foreign Ministry to discuss "important new developments." The commissioners reluctantly accepted the invitation; in the meantime they sent their luggage to the airport and instructed the pilot of their Gulfstream jet to be ready for a 3 p.m. takeoff: Instead, Ghotbzadeh talked them into postponing their departure. Less than half an hour before their plane was scheduled to depart, the startling announcement by the student militants was broadcast to the nation...
...bureaucrats, it virtually ignores the crucial need for an entrepreneurial class. Yet the past decade's development success stories in Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Ivory Coast and many other advanced developing nations have shown the importance of private sector initiative and profits in motivating economic takeoff...
Solomon sums up his professional life as "one of handling money and men." Son of a New Jersey real estate developer, he studied economics at the University of Chicago before going into Government service. In a vertical-takeoff career, he became by 1943 at age 23 director-general of finance for Allied-occupied southwest Iran, which included that country's strategic oilfields. In the 1950s he launched a powdered soup company in Mexico. After becoming a multimillionaire by selling his firm to General Foods, he began teaching a course in Latin American entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School. Solomon...
...would life in the U.S. be if a mere sampling of the 1969 prognostications had been accurate? The economy would be stable, steadily growing, with perhaps a bit of inflation. A superboom in housing would have occurred: a second home would be as ordinary as a second car. Vertical takeoff planes would be much in use. A safe fast-breeder reactor would be perfected. Space-shuttle flights would be regularly scheduled. Anticancer vaccine would be available at the neighborhood clinic. Ugly transmission lines would all be underground. People would be shopping by two-way cable television. Teaching machines would...