Word: aire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhilarating week to be an editor. I hope that as you read this issue you will catch our excitement over the events and ideas in the air...
...dangerous. Something could happen. A person could change. There is an element of hostility to Los Angeles that has a racist undertone. The fact that this is a Latin region, with its patios of bougainvillaea and its streets named for Spanish saints and psychotics. When you breathe the air, you become infiltrated with the idea that you are in another region entirely...
...protest a 6% government ceiling on wage increases that was imposed on most of the country's workers as an anti-inflationary measure. The pilots, who earn an average of $61,000 a year, are demanding a 29.5% increase. To help out during the strike, the air force converted 14 military passenger aircraft to temporary commercial service. Australia's three domestic carriers, Ansett, East-West and Australian Airlines, have managed to maintain 40% of their daily flight schedules, in part by hiring foreign charters. (Qantas, an international carrier, is not affected by the strike...
Since the strike began, air traffic has fallen from an average of 268,000 passengers a week to just 119,000 recently. In a sprawling land where air transportation is vital to daily commerce, the strike is strangling the economy. Hardest hit is tourism, Australia's largest industry. If the strike persists until Christmas, the country's tourism revenues could decline $500 million this year, a 30% drop from 1988. In Melbourne alone, 417 conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will...
...David Letterman filtered through the pages of Spy magazine. But Sweet represents something different for TV, a new breed of entertainer known as the comedy jockey. Viewers will learn what she does on Wednesday, when the Comedy Channel, a new 24-hour cable service from HBO, goes on the air. It is one of two all-comedy networks getting set to square off on a new battlefield of yucks...