Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Hard times in the airline industry have left a few strong carriers with most of the traffic and a handful of debt-ridden ones struggling to stay aloft. Last week two of the weaker airlines decided that a merger may help them survive. TWA chairman Carl Icahn, who began pursuing a merger with Pan Am two months ago, finally persuaded the rival carrier to agree tentatively to a deal. Under the terms, TWA would acquire Pan Am for $375 million, or $2.50 per share in cash and securities. The merger, however, depends upon Icahn's ability to provide a bridge...
...best two years," confirms Barbara. "But then I always think what I'm doing is best. I haven't had too many bad ones, you know." In fact, the First Lady has had trying times: she has ridden the political roller coaster with her husband, seen divorce and financial trouble touch her children, been slowed by illness. Yet she smothers it all with what one close friend describes as her "big optimism...
...Boston's 57,000 public-school students, 80% of them members of minorities. Black leaders and the School Committee protested the council's action, which must be approved by the Massachusetts legislature and signed by the Governor. But Mayor Raymond Flynn, who is pushing hard to overhaul the debt-ridden system, argues, "There's just no time anymore to sit around and think. We've got kids walking away from classrooms, who shoot and kill each other in the streets...
These patterns lend an empty, dissatisfied feel to the book. We are in the middle of a decayed, small world in which a housewife dances alone in an empty living room, and an aging, cancer-ridden football coach stands on a bench in the rain and pleads for support to a vacant, deaf street...
...raised on Cape Cod -- "beautiful, absolutely delicious." Al Falchi, who owns the Waterfront Restaurant in San Francisco, buys farmed fish because "you never know how long a wild fish has been sitting on the boat." Perhaps the last word should go to Paul Constantin of New Orleans, who has ridden the catfish wave at his nouvelle Creole restaurant, Constantin's. "Tourists come here to give different foods a shot," he observes. "Look, if they'll try raw oysters, they'll try anything...