Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eckert's trip to North Korea in April was his first, although he had been to South Korea in the late 1960s as part of the Peace Corps...
...trip in April] left a great impression that I am still trying to digest," said Eckert, who is also director of the Korea Institute at Harvard...
...very sad trip for me. I spent a long time in Korea during my 20s, and it was almost like going back to the 1960s without the hope [of economic development]," Eckert said...
...testing grounds was wet macaroni. The company had guaranteed a pastamaker it could fix a moisture problem. Suddenly there were 10,000 lbs. of macaroni on the floor, in millions of bits, none of it drying worth a damn. The Chief was called in. The Chief arrived. Long trip, cleanup at the hotel, dinner, back to the macaroni factory. All night long, The Chief paced, The Chief thought, The Chief would suddenly leap up and march off down the corridor. By dawn The Chief had a plan: he started with a 48-hour drying time and continued to shorten...
...anyone else, he believed in airline travel as something to be enjoyed by ordinary mortals, not just a globe-trotting elite. In 1945 other airlines didn't think or act that way. Trippe decided to introduce a "tourist class" fare from New York to London. He cut the round-trip fare more than half, to $275 ($1,684 in today's dollars, which makes current pricing a bargain, right?). This went over like a lead balloon in the industry, where air fares were fixed by a cartel, the International Air Transport Association; it didn't want to hear about...