Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now, the trunks are keeping Boeing busy filling orders for its new wide-bodied 767. Boeing has sold 177 of the $46 million, twin-engine planes so far, and will produce five a month this year, which will keep the assembly line moving efficiently until business picks up enough to allow the industry to buy more. United Air Lines, the first carrier to fly the 767, has taken out newspaper ads proclaiming: "If you had a favorite airplane, this one's going to take its place...
Boeing is also beginning to profit from the industry's twin problems of overcapacity in big airliners (as many as 100 747s, DC-10s and L-1011s are grounded because they cannot be filled), and the fare wars sparked by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. While the trunks have been slugging it out in expensive discounting duels for a shrinking number of passengers on such popular routes as New York-Los Angeles and Miami-Chicago, small regional airlines, known in the industry as "bumblebees," have been making fat profits serving medium-size cities abandoned by the major carriers...
...When a twin-engine Cessna lost power and crashed in Montgomery, Ohio, last week, four FBI agents and a retired policeman were killed, the largest single-day loss of FBI agents. But the revelation that the sixth passenger, Carl Johnson, had been declared legally dead just weeks before the crash put a bizarre twist on the disaster...
...second half of 1983. That was the cautious view of TIME'S European Board of Economists, which met in Geneva last week to survey the West's hesitant forces for recovery-most notably the falling interest rates around the world-and to weigh them against the twin recessionary demons of global debt and rising protectionism that are threatening the economies of nations everywhere...
...Harvard man who had everything. A 1908 Rambler Roadster topped the list at $2250.00--perfect for that spin around the park. The vehicle contained all the latest technological advances, including a rumble seat and leather interior. Serious recreation seekers could reach Bermuda in only 45 hours, aboard the new twin screw S. S. Bermudia. And to take home to the family, the 1908 Harvard Yearbook bound in Crimson and lettered in Gold sold for one dollar...