Word: dovetailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merger proposal is likely to prevail and receive final approval from the White House. The international carrier has routes that dovetail neatly with National's predominantly domestic runs and would probably not encounter antitrust objections...
...triumphs over madness. In alternating sections, Al reminisces aloud, as much to pass the time as to get through to his apparently oblivious friend, and then Birdy in turn thinks about his past. These two sets of memories are vectors to the present. The personalities of the two men dovetail: Al is profane, athletic, gregarious; Birdy is decorous, wispy and fixated on a world that is real but more acutely visible to him than others. "One hundred billion birds," he muses, "fifty for every man alive and nobody seems to notice. We live in the slime of an immensity...
...unrealistic to expect most marriages to work out so equitably. An instructor in Management Development in Health Care at the School of Public Health, Barrett is the mother of one child and expects a second. She says she "has structured her family and professional responsibilities so that they dovetail...I still play a much stronger role than my husband when it comes to our child...
...when United acquired Capitol. If Pan Am's bid for National succeeds, it will become the second largest U.S. line in terms of revenue (about $2.5 billion a year), trailing only United ($3 billion). Pan Am would get the domestic routes it has long sought, ones that neatly dovetail with its international runs. National's routes, mainly in the East and along the country's southern rim, would feed Pan Am's foreign hops from New York, San Francisco and Miami. In turn, National could draw on Pan Am's big fleet of 747s for its growing transatlantic business, which...
...carpenter-precariously, since his standards of joinery and finish soon became too high for him to be employable in the quick-profit building trade. His sculptures have always been exquisitely made, the rare-wood inlays done with a skill almost vanished from modern American joinery, every miter and dovetail fitted to perfect tolerances. This pitch of care gives the work an indelible presence. It is quality as metaphor, proclaiming that art, before it says anything else, is a statement of the need to make something really well...