Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are 800 songs in this remarkable volume, and naturally many of them deserve their place at the bottom of the trunk. Who but a historian will ever want to hear The Social Coach of All.the Fashionable Future Debutantes or Since Ma Got the Craze Espagnole? But the best remain fresh and audacious in form as well as style. Begin the Beguine was the longest popular song ever written: 108 measures, as against the standard 32. Night and Day has an A-B-A-B-C-B rhyme scheme, rarely heard before or since...
Clearing the runway for these airlines was the industry deregulation in the late '70s. By giving all carriers more freedom in setting their routes and rates, deregulation made it possible and profitable for upstart outfits to search for gaps in the service provided by major trunk lines. Since 1978, at least 16 jet-flying passenger airlines have been launched, in contrast with none in the previous 20 years...
...upstart airlines are succeeding by finding markets either overlooked or ignored by the big trunk carriers. One such newcomer is Hawaiian Pacific, a new Los Angeles-based airline that has begun advertising nonstop service to Honolulu. Founded by a former TV game-show producer, Hawaiian Pacific plans to serve 15 mainland cities as far east as New York City, where nonstop flights to Hawaii have mostly been unavailable. Still awaiting the resolution of questions about its financing and Civil Aeronautics Board certification, the new airline hopes to begin service on Feb. 15 with five leased 747s. After only two weeks...
...townies watched us move in, goof off for a few years, raise hell in their neighborhood, and then blow out of town in Dad's car with a B.A. stashed in the trunk. Snots, they called us. In my four years at Tufts. I did not break down these barriers. Relations with the neighbors were bad, except for when either of us got drunk, and then they were very...
...weakness. That is the conclusion many airline executives have reached after five years of bitter fare wars. Largely as a result of airline deregulation, which started in 1978, a two-tiered industry has come into existence. On the one hand are the old, giant, heavily unionized trunk carriers with high, fixed labor costs. Examples: Continental, Eastern and TWA. On the other hand are the new, small, nonunionized carriers. Examples: People Express, Muse Air and New York...