Word: stainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major statement is called for. The choristers decked out in liturgical robes, the angelic, sexless piping of boy sopranos, the hovering vicars, the culturally resonant majesty of the cathedral setting -- the whole High Church atmosphere has consistently evoked a corresponding High Seriousness in composers as disparate as Handel, John Stainer, Elgar and Andrew Lloyd Webber...
...Ailing TWA soon followed suit, accepting a $445 million offer for its spots at Heathrow from American Airlines. British Airways, the world's largest international carrier (20 million passengers last year) took one look at the two giants setting up shop at the next terminal and squawked. Says Matthew Stainer, a London airlines analyst: "Its only U.S. competition was Pan Am and TWA. Both are good people to compete with because they are walking disaster areas." British officials pointed out that the bilateral treaty governing air travel between the two countries did not allow Pan Am and TWA to sell...