Sentences with phrase «reached by airplane»

Not exact matches

And yet if you'd invested $ 10,000 in Southwest Airlines on Dec. 31, 1972 (when it was just a tiny little outfit with three airplanes, barely reaching breakeven and besieged by larger airlines out to kill the fledgling), your $ 10,000 would have grown to nearly $ 12 million by the end of 2002, a return 63 times better than the general stock market.

How many times have you contorted yourself in an airplane seat to retrieve an errant crayon, or seriously compromised your safety by reaching for a dropped sippy while driving?

So that by the time its energy reaches your ear, the sound you perceive is more of a whisper than a shout — or an airplane engine's roar is more like a quiet hum.

The beam's energy, although strong enough to affect overflying airplanes, which have an operating ceiling of about 26 kilometers (in Earth's stratosphere), is too diffuse by the time it reaches the ionosphere, part of the planet's upper atmosphere.

Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being.

What we are talking about is more like, How much fuel will be burned by how many airplanes reaching their airstrips over the next half - century, given various projections for population growth and economic development, imponderables about changing patterns of mobility and technological breakthroughs, and market reactions to unpredictable events like terrorist hijackings?