Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revenue is down from 8.840 per passenger mile in the first half of 1977 to 8.60 this year. Consequently, Eastern's break-even point has risen from 55% to 62% of capacity?that is, it makes money only when 62% of the seats are filled. Shuddering at the prospect of the CAB'S approval of another 70% reduction in some fares, Delta President Garrett declares: "At some point, the fare structure must be stabilized. There is no way you can cut fares 70% and continue to profit, because costs are simply too high...
...Ecuador, where the armed forces have ruled since a 1972 coup, free elections produced at least the prospect of a civilian winner. In fact, there are now two runoff candidates for the country's presidency. The current favorite is the candidate least beloved by the Ecuadorian military: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 37, leader of the populist Concentration of Popular Forces party (CFP). Roldós received 31% of the 1,408,316 votes cast. His closest rival in a six-candidate field was Sixto Duran Ballén, 57, the army's favorite, with 23%. The runoff...
...Alexander Ginzburg, began prison terms of 13, ten and eight years. At the same time, in a clumsy effort at press intimidation, a Moscow court ordered two American newsmen and their papers to pay fines and print retractions for having libeled state television employees. Meanwhile, other trials were in prospect, as Moscow continued its crackdown on domestic opposition...
...household belongings into two cars for the 1,654-mile trip from Montreal to Hollywood, Fla. Murphy had sold his insurance brokerage business, an office building and their house. The reasons for their departure, according to Murphy, were increasing governmental intervention in business, a flat economy and the prospect of Quebec's secession. In Florida, the Murphys became owners of a 26-unit motel and apartment complex on the heavily traveled north-south Interstate AlA. They paid $100,000 for the place, spent more than $40,000 to refurbish it from reception room to flagstaff, which now flies...
...short red hair. She brings a surprisingly forceful voice and a sure comic instinct. It is fun to watch her lapse from her assumed machismo--as when, on exclaiming of Olivia, "She loves me sure," she girlishly claps her hands over her face, or repeatedly swoons at the prospect of having to duel with Sir Andrew. Her performance perhaps owes something to her recent portrayal of another witty and manly woman, Shaw's Saint Joan. It is possibly no coincidence that the supreme traversal of both Viola and Saint Joan were given, in the late '50s, by Siobhan McKenna...