Word: midways
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...current trends in immigration and birth rates continue, minorities will outnumber white Americans midway through the 21st century. Under those circumstances, blacks and Hispanics have no choice but to collaborate. They have far more to gain from pooling their strengths than from bickering with each other...
...years into the chaos of airline deregulation, which has seen dozens of new carriers enter the business and fail, U.S. airlines are holding their last big sale. The industry lost a record $2.4 billion last year, sending Eastern to the scrap heap and four major carriers -- Continental, Pan Am, Midway and America West -- into bankruptcy. The last shaky carriers may soon follow. Once dominant TWA and USAir may be forced into mergers or bankruptcy before the end of the year...
...Secretary of State wanted to underscore just how close the two adversaries are. But his stroll over the Allenby Bridge spanning the River Jordan, which marks the border, made the equally telling point that both sides are loath to come together. The two Jordanian officers who accompanied the Secretary midway across the bridge and the waiting Israeli escort spoke not a word to one another...
...Midway through the fourth inning last Thursday, the home team was behind 16-0, and the restless opening-day crowd began to leave their seats. Rather than rushing to beat the traffic home, they set out on sightseeing tours along the broad concourses ringing the field. It was an epic day, the unveiling of the new Comiskey Park, and Chicago White Sox fans were ready to gawk. The splendor of the grass, the picture-perfect sight lines from the lower deck and the allure of the sun-speckled bleachers all trumpeted that this was a park made for baseball. Before...
...test. What I hoped would be taken care of early on has become a long, drawn-out, stressful ordeal. Taking advantage of help provided by the "QRR tutors" in the Science Center computer terminal room, I signed up for a test in early fall, only to walk out midway through, clueless as to how to get the computer to give the correct amount of change in pennies...