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...first, airport and bus ticket counters were thronged. Amtrak switchboards were jammed. Rental car firms found fewer customers at their airport counters, while at their downtown offices in large cities, fearful air travelers queued up for wheels. International passengers had little choice but to wait out available flights, sometimes camping overnight in terminals. Businessmen turned to corporate and charter aircraft, which was not always an improvement; under the FAA'S contingency plans, such planes had a lower priority than the scheduled carriers. But as the week progressed, even the reduced number of flights held more capacity than the fewer passengers...
Mass Transit. The political clout of the nation's largest cities will be severely tested as Congress grapples with Reagan's plan to end all federal subsidies for the operation of mass-transit systems by 1985 and to cut capital grants by $270 million in 1982. Some Amtrak officials gloomily predict that the result will be the end of a national rail system by 1985. More immediately, Amtrak expects to have to stop running eight commuter trains daily between New York City and Philadelphia, putting thousands of people back into cars at a time when the nation...
Donnelly considers three factors in deciding whether he can successfully claim age discrimination: the employee's performance, the reasons for his discharge, if any, and the age of his replacement. One Amtrak official now concedes privately that Keane's boss was too "heavyhanded," but he maintains that the reports in Keane's folder gave far too flattering a picture of his capabilities...
Employers, in fact, often have legitimate reasons for letting older workers go. A company might conclude that a management shake-up is essential, or a firm with excessive overhead might decide that some high-salaried executives are expendable. Amtrak Lawyer Page Sharp stresses the risks inherent in executive-level positions. "If you want security," he argues, "you choose union jobs. But for bigger jobs and bigger bucks, you've got to be amenable to being wiped out by new management." When presented with such pragmatic arguments, however, juries tend to identify with the employee's predicament rather than...
...bedroom house to a three-bedroom apartment and sold the family car, yet still could not keep up with his bills. Nevertheless, like many others in the same situation, what bothers him most is the smear on his record. This week he planned to seek a court order directing Amtrak to reinstate him. "It wasn't right," he says. "I want to be completely vindicated...