Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from less than $1 million during its first year of business. One Barter Systems missive to some of its 25,000 clients earlier this year: WANTED: $300,000 WORTH OF DRIED MILK OR CORNFLAKES, IN RETURN FOR AN AIRPLANE OF EQUAL VALUE. In another case, Barter Systems helped a tire company trade a jet airplane for $1.3 million worth of coal...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and a basketball player during his college years in Texas, Acker started in the tire and battery business, served as a vice president of Lionel D. Edie & Co. investment advisers, and then switched to the airline industry in the 1960s. He became president of Braniff in 1970, and in 1977 was named chairman of Air Florida. By slashing fares and expanding service, he increased Air Florida revenues from $7.8 million in 1977 to $161.2 million last year. The formerly small intrastate line now flies to 43 cities, including London and Amsterdam...
...Violence has become an accepted way of life," says Sergeant J.J. Garcia. The slightest insult, real or imagined, provokes a mid-traffic surge for revenge. The protection of turf and machismo honor are the pretexts; baseball bats, screw drivers, knives, cheap guns and especially tire irons are the weapons. Sadly, passers-by are often the innocent victims of this remorseless violence...
...striking controllers, however, contend that the supervisors are generally older men (in their mid-40s vs. mid-30s for rank-and-file controllers) who may have grown rusty at manning the scopes and who may tire once the initial exhilaration of stepping into an emergency situation wears off. Initially they were working 12-hr, daily shifts vs. the controllers' usual 40-hr, week. At week's end, Helms ordered that no control tower employee should work more than 48 hours a week...
...sound man, in two ways: he devises aural effects for films, and he carries himself with an air of unassuming rectitude. One night, while on a field trip to tape the whistling wind for a horror movie, he hears the air punctured by the explosion of an automobile tire and sees a car careen through a bridge railing and into the water below. The car contains a presidential hopeful and his lady of the evening, Sally (Nancy Allen). Jack dives in and saves her, but is later warned by police and friends of the deceased politician to forget that...