Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appalling that any citizen could applaud the shooting of a President. The reaction of the students from Tulsa was as sick and disgusting as the assassination attempt itself...
...country is not." Admiration for the President's courage and calm under fire, as well as for the vitality of his 70-year-old physique, was widespread but not universal. At the Academy Central School in Tulsa, a few students clapped and cheered when they heard news of the assassination attempt...
Since New York Air had trouble obtaining scarce landing rights at Washington's National Airport, Muse decided to fly his carrier into Tulsa, St. Louis and other less congested Midwestern and Southern cities. Says he: "Our target is where big airlines have cut back, the heartland of Middle America." The new airline will fly fuel-efficient DC-9 Super 80s, and Muse says that he will slash prices by up to 66%. Fares will be low enough to "get people off the interstate highways and onto airplanes." And what about stewardess outfits? A slight smirk ripples through Muse...
Another difficulty is management. Oil experts say that the Soviets have not done a good job of handling their resources. Reports Arthur Meyerhoff, a Tulsa, Okla., oil engineer who has traveled widely in the U.S.S.R.: "To say that the Soviets have mismanaged their petroleum industry is the understatement of the year." Western oilmen say that the Soviets made their first serious mistake when they set drilling targets in terms of meters drilled, thus making a deep dry hole as good as a gusher in terms of fulfilling the plan...
...editorial writers on newspapers, "Afghanistanism" has long had a special insider's meaning that is suddenly out of date. It meant ducking hot issues. Robert U. Brown, editor of the trade weekly Editor and Publisher, remembers when Tulsa Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones first used it in a 1948 speech to a convention of editorial writers. "Many an editorial writer can't hit a short-range target," Jones said. "It takes guts to dig up the dirt on the sheriff, or to expose a utility racket, or to tangle with the Governor. They all bite back...