Word: airsick
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...year airline employee who has taken two rounds of deep pay and benefit cuts, followed by the loss of my pension, I needed an airsick bag to get through your article. It is the trend for CEOs to take a company into bankruptcy and then bully workers to accept even more cuts or else suffer liquidation, contract nullification or outsourcing. These executives cite huge losses and global competition as their rationale, yet they somehow find millions upon millions of dollars to secure their own salaries, bonuses, pensions and perks. The obscene thing is that bankruptcy judges and Congress allow...
...involve large sums of money (a Concorde nose cone was sold at auction for $550,000 to a U.S.-based Concorde fanatic). But aside from their financial value, many of the better-known collections form amusing slices of stratospheric life. Take American Steve Silberberg's (mercifully unsoiled) collection of airsick bags, boasting 1,279 mint-condition receptacles, including some from outer space. "Show people a barf bag, and right away they're interested," he says...
...involve large sums of money (a Concorde nose cone was sold at auction for $550,000 to a U.S.-based Concorde fanatic). But aside from their financial value, many of the better-known collections form amusing slices of stratospheric life. Take American Steve Silberberg's (mercifully unsoiled) collection of airsick bags, boasting 1,279 mint-condition receptacles, including some from outer space. "Show people a barf bag, and right away they're interested," he says. If you're thinking of starting up your own collection, experts advise that you accumulate anything and everything. Even if you have no interest...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan showed few such signs of concern last week. As Wall Streeters reached for airsick bags, he calmly flew to Boston for a long-scheduled session with fellow bankers. Greenspan believes U.S. economic fundamentals are solid. Fed vice chairman Roger Ferguson told TIME, "The economy is cooling from its unsustainable pace of earlier this year, but recent data certainly don't suggest a dangerous slowdown...