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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past three years Eastern has sold eleven of its passenger-boarding gates and a choice Miami-to-London route, and has transferred 20 airliners to Continental, another unit of Texas Air. Two years ago, Eastern sold its computerized reservation system to Texas Air for $100 million -- a price most industry experts said was too low. Last October, Eastern agreed to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman...
Anchoring the defense will be Michael Murphy, Andy Barnard, Peter Long and former midfielder Chris Bentley. Three freshmen--David Murphy (Michael's brother), Michael Kramer (David's brother) and Peter Welch--will also get a lot of playing time on this inexperienced unit...
...Harvard, cases are the rule, and they serve as the foundation for all courses. Although professors occasionally provide mini-lectures or summarize past classes, they must use case studies rather than lectures as the basic unit of instruction...
...they were onto something cool. The sleek, usually portable instruments offered a solid beat, a big sound and all sorts of groovy techno- twists at a manageable price. Today keyboards are about a $600 million-a- year business. Some 15 million have been sold in the U.S. alone, where unit sales of electronic keyboards have outpaced the traditional acoustic-piano market for at least five years. Says Don Griffin, owner of West L.A. Music in Southern California: "They're the word processors of music...
...stopped to ask the plant's staff about new safety measures. Gorbachev called the Chernobyl accident "very serious for the whole world," adding, "Through science and technology, we need to give energy to the nation, but safety remains the most important thing." Forty-eight hours later, the first ! unit of a twelve-year-old nuclear-power plant in Armenia was shut down. Under public pressure, authorities conceded that the operation was too risky in the earthquake zone...