Word: tranquilizers
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...which once seemed like a tiny speck on the horizon, is closing fast with hot new planes and cut-rate prices. Subsidized by European governments and charged by its rivals with making underhanded deals to win sales, Airbus has brought fiercer competition to an industry that has never been tranquil. It has also sparked a serious trade dispute between the U.S. and its allies across the Atlantic. The stakes involved are enormous: an estimated 2,000 planes worth $250 billion will be sold in the next 13 years...
Kansas City boosters countered the cosmopolitan claims of the competition by stressing the advantages of the more tranquil Midwest. Over cocktails at a Mission Hills mansion, Mark Russell, a Kansas City developer, genially assured Democrats, "We don't have race riots here, we don't have crazies, and all our cabdrivers speak English...
...case reveals two things. First, it is now clear that John Silber cannot violate the law when it serves his ends. More important is the revelation that Silber was willing to try to violate basic civil rights to protect his precious image of a tranquil campus...
...executive suite at Omnicom, where former BBDO Chairman Allen Rosenshine is in charge, has been comparatively tranquil. "It seems to be working," observes Harry Paster, executive vice president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. "They have added some strengths to each agency that they didn't have individually." But Omnicom has a worrisome growing pain: the refusal of some advertisers to deal with an agency that handles any archrival products. The merger of three agencies brought together under one roof many combinations of fiercely competitive consumer goods. Pillsbury, for example, which had cake and frosting accounts with Omnicom, withdrew...
...illuminate human aspirations with a telling phrase or a symbolic gesture. For several hours last week, an unprecedented event put together under his auspices dramatized one of the greatest of all aspirations. At his invitation, leaders from the religions of the earth gathered under glowering skies in the tranquil medieval Italian town of Assisi and, with quiet dignity, uttered prayers for world peace...