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    transatlantic
    [ adj ]
    crossing the Atlantic Ocean
    <adj.pert>
    transatlantic flight


    Transatlantic \Trans`at*lan"tic\ (tr[a^]ns*[a^]t*l[a^]n"t[i^]k),
    a. [Pref. trans- + Atlantic: cf. F. transatlantique.]
    1. Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

    Note: When used by a person in Europe or Africa,
    transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a
    person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe
    or Africa, especially the former.

    2. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean; as, a transatlantic flight.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    1. If the link-up does bring Titmuss more global work, then other City firms could also start to dust off their own transatlantic merger plans.
    2. At the end of the 1980s, transatlantic takeovers were all the rage, reaching Dollars 47bn in value in 1989: since then, interest has dwindled.
    3. ICI, however, was much less active, with the share price finally pulled down by Wall Street's weakness. Company statements from other sectors might have made more impact but for the underlying currency and transatlantic uncertainties.
    4. There has been a long transatlantic dispute over the Community's utilities procurement rules.
    5. The future of NATO depends on the alliance's ability to deal with our enduring security concerns, and our evolving economic relationship, We look to Belgium to continue to play its important role in our close, and cooperative transatlantic partnership.
    6. US involvement in Nato also stands as a more general emblem of transatlantic co-operation.
    7. Some routes - including the transatlantic ones - could be cut.
    8. USAir's strength is on the eastern seaboard where two-thirds of Europe-bound transatlantic passengers live. USAir's president should be even happier.
    9. The second would be in transatlantic relations.
    10. And the summer began with acrimonious transatlantic battles for control of Harcourt Brace and JWT Group Inc., a major advertising company.
    11. One such - made possible by the transatlantic merger that formed SmithKline Beecham - is to have two types of equity so that overseas shareholders, at least, escape the ACT burden. Another is to move costs abroad.
    12. But British Airways, too, which has been winning traffic by siphoning off transatlantic passengers from Germany, will face a trickier task.
    13. His first chance to compose a complete score came with Mr Cinders, even though he at once fell victim to the transatlantic snobbery which has dogged him throughout his career.
    14. The deals are now likely to be renegotiated, setting a new framework for transatlantic air travel for the next few years. The most important changes are in prospect on the link between the UK and north America.
    15. Almost 30 different fares are sold on each transatlantic Boeing 747. Airlines struggle daily to cut prices enough to sell seats but keep them high enough to make money.
    16. GPA and Rolls-Royce like the plane because it can be used in a wide variety of applications, including transatlantic flights, Jolley said.
    17. THE French and US governments are to make a last-ditch attempt next week to resolve a deadlock over dividing capacity on transatlantic air routes.
    18. British Airways decided to withdraw services to Ireland in January 1991 because of losses. One glimmer of hope is if the government drops the 'Shannon stop-over' obligation on all transatlantic flights in and out of Ireland.
    19. That was the sub-text to the gift of flowers to her from the prime minister this week. Conservative Central Office will be mightily relieved when her campaign - started Friday the 13th - ends with a transatlantic flight on April Fool's Day.
    20. An exotically beautiful Frenchwoman, barely 21, competing in the solo transatlantic race.
    21. Friday's meeting was the second time this year the giant trade partners held high-level meeting talks to reflect the increasing importance they attach to closer transatlantic ties.
    22. In 1819, the first steam-propelled vessel to attempt a transatlantic crossing, the Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga. It arrived in Liverpool on June 20.
    23. The partly-paid stock was also well supported, closing 12 ahead at 244p on turnover of 8.8m. The transatlantic battle in BP shares flared up again as one of the big US brokerages, believed to be PaineWebber, was said to have moved in as a heavy buyer.
    24. The department said it chose Piedmont in part because the airline has already established a major hub in Charlotte, and doesn't have authority for any other transatlantic routes.
    25. The additions solidify American's position as the third-largest U.S. transatlantic carrier, behind PanAm Corp.'s Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines.
    26. Liverpool is now a principal hub for transatlantic, Irish, Mediterranean and West African cargoes. Development within Mersey Docks includes PowerGen's Pounds 40m coal terminal, which starts working this year, and a new timber products warehouse.
    27. According to the market, these have been well received and transatlantic buying interest has since increased to quite substantial volumes.
    28. The British move follows an angry reaction from the European Commission which said earlier this month that the proposed extension of the US embargo had 'the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship'.
    29. As an opening gambit in its battle with BT, AT&T has already proposed a cut of about 60 per cent in the accounting rates for transatlantic calls.
    30. One problem was the early morning influx into British airspace of some 400 transatlantic flights, which tended to hold up departures from Glasgow, Belfast and Manchester.
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