Word: tristar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stepped out of their British Airways TriStar at New Delhi's Palam airport, they were greeted by marching bands, a 21-gun salute and officers arrayed in spotless finery. As a Mercedes six-door limousine ferried the royal visitors through the chrysanthemum-lined streets, welcoming banners fluttered before them and wizened shopkeepers craned their necks to wave at perhaps the world's richest woman. On the last leg of an 18-day, three-nation swing through Africa and Asia, the Queen made it clear that royalty can still command loyalty...
...verdict, Tanaka listened with his eyes closed. The three-judge panel found Tanaka guilty of having accepted $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corp. during the early 1970s in return for persuading Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, to buy the company's TriStar jets. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $2 million, the amount of the bribe.* At one particularly somber moment, Judge Okada looked directly at the former Prime Minister and sadly noted that his actions had brought "irreparable damage to the public trust in politics...
...years later, he was arrested on charges of having accepted $2 million in bribes to the Lockheed Corp. in return for persuading a Japanese airline to buy the is triStar jets. The trial dragged along for 6½ years; a verdict is now expected in October...
...years; that will ensure that Boeing can keep production lines warm and the work force in place until orders spring back, and it will enable Delta to start battling those bumblebees more effectively. As part payment, Boeing will take eleven of Delta's surplus Lockheed TriStar wide bodies and try to resell them overseas...
...TriStar program should improve Lockheed's financial position. The firm's stock rose from 41⅜ to 49¼ on the day after the announcement. Sales of the TriStar accounted for only about 18% of Lockheed's $5.4 billion in revenues last year. The company is the sixth largest American defense contractor and its most profitable products are missiles and space and electronic equipment followed by military air transports and reconnaissance jets...