Word: basic
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While deregulation would provide a solution to the independents' problems in the long run, it would do little to settle the current difficulties. One factor working against a prolonged strike, however, is the basic split in the industry. The independents are bitter enemies of the Teamsters, who are combatting the strike by keeping trucks rolling in such big cities as Chicago and Detroit, where they control the jobs...
...only accredited four-year college devoted solely to aviation. Some 3,400 students enrolled this spring at its Daytona campus, most of them working toward a B.S. degree by studying subjects such as pilot training, plane design and aircraft maintenance. The school also offers courses in history and basic science. "Embry-Riddle is to aviation what the Harvard Business School is to the corporate world," boasts Vice President Dick Queenan, a former executive of Pan American World Airways...
Ethan Gologor is a psychologist and a tennis player, so it is no surprise when he asserts that "all sports are psychological, but some are more psychological than others. And tennis is the most." Assuming that his readers have the basic tennis skills (no amount of "inner" therapy will compensate for their absence), the doctor outlines the problems of this heady game...
...other half in Luxembourg and nearly all committee meetings in Brussels. But the political heavyweights are already chafing about that idea. Brandt, for one, in an initial show of parliamentary independence, declared that the seat for the new Parliament is its own business, "just as it is the most basic right of any family to decide where to live...
...third, time in six months, the price-fixing cartel will lift the cost of its crude, and the question is how much more of such treatment the world economy can endure. Since last December, official, cartel-wide increases have pushed up the basic cost of mankind's most important energy resource by 14.5%, gravely inflaming global inflation. Worse, surging demand has enabled the OPEC nations to tack on one premium and surcharge after another, raising the actual price for most grades by as much as 30%, to $17 or more per bbl. Next week such cartel militants as Iran...