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Eastern pilots have honored a strike by 8500 mechanics and ramp service workers that began Saturday after a 17-month labor dispute. The strike has grounded most flights, stranded thousands of passengers and pushed the nation's seventh-largest airline to the brink of collapse...
...second game, the spikers pulled out to a 7-2 lead working with a well-balanced 5-1 lineup. Boston College rallied with a four-point spurt and came back to trail by only one, 7-6. Harvard, with its front line hitting and blocking steadily, seemed on the brink of victory when it served for match, point...
Harvard rallied to within two points, 12-10, and valiantly fought back from the brink of elimination with several saves at match point. The Crimson brought its play up a notch, and several B.C. miscues helped Harvard knot the score...
...indeed Gorbachev succeeds, we could really be on the brink of a whole new era," Goldman says. "It's not a question of holding down the military budget. It may be just chopping...
...years as the master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. The novel is crammed with funny renditions of wheezy professorial badinage and flamboyant dramatic monologues. But it is Davies' own voice that seems most memorable: confident, unhurried, interested and amused. Late in the novel, on the brink of the opera's opening night, the narrative pauses briefly to consider Oliver Twentyman, a trouper in his 80s who will sing the role of Merlin the magician: "He liked being old -- and still a great artist. Age, linked with achievement, was a splendid crown to life...