Word: time
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...second time in seven years, a financial downdraft swept Continental Airlines into bankruptcy court last week. Faced with rising fuel costs and $2.2 billion of debt incurred under Frank Lorenzo, the airline's expansion- minded former boss, Continental filed for protection while it prepares a repayment plan. "We were just running out of cash," said chairman Hollis Harris, who vowed to maintain the airline's full schedule of flights...
...filing came as the nation's fifth largest carrier was beginning to win back customers with a better on-time performance and other improvements. Most passengers stuck with the airline. The real crunch may come next month when the peak season ends. "Once holiday price slashing is over, fares will have to increase," Harris said. "But to raise them at the rate necessary to offset the total increase in fuel prices would cripple business travel and all but obliterate pleasure travel." Harris must navigate such turbulence if he expects to fly Continental out of Chapter...
...same time, the U.S. began airlifting out of Chad several hundred Libyan dissidents who had served as soldiers in the pro-Western government of ousted President Hissene Habre. Tripoli accused the U.S. of training the dissidents to carry out commando raids in Libya, but Washington refused to comment...
...authorities may have also simply decided that enough time has passed since the Tiananmen crackdown so the risk of rousing large-scale protests is minimal. Except for a few notices posted outside the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, the prosecutions have so far proceeded with little official fanfare. The government may be calculating that concern for the detainees will eventually fade, as it did for Wei Jingsheng, 40, an activist during the Democracy Wall movement of 1978-79, who is marking his 12th year behind bars...