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These children of deregulation are making life difficult for their larger competitors. The nine major airlines, those with annual revenues of more than $1 billion,* have seen their domestic market share slip from 95% to 87% during the past four years. Continental, TWA and Eastern are staggering under heavy losses and have launched risky strategies to trim costs. Braniff, which was pushed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1982, will probably not begin flying again under its new owner, Hyatt Corp., until March...
...defense requires depth like crazy. It takes seasoned substitutes who can slip in and out of the action without breaking momentum. Most of all it takes experience, and that's what the Crimson doesn't have...
Once a dashiki-clad radical, King, 55, recently adopted a sober tone and somber attire. Nevertheless, he let slip a few atavistic faux pas, such as saying that he preferred Fidel Castro to Ronald Reagan. More damaging in this heavily Catholic city, he implied, without offering evidence, that the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros was antiSemitic...
...after two-and-a-half minutes, deflecting a shot from the point into the top of the Harvard net. Vermont jumped ahead quickly when a pad save by goalie Grant Blair on left wing Mark Litton pulled the Crimson sophomore out of position, allowing Crowley to slip the rebound in behind...
...right, I saw a Yale undergrad slip, laughing, from the top of the Yale Bowl. He tumbled, head-over-heels, down the step grass incline, plummeting ever closer to the brick barrier that was the mantle of one portal...