Word: businessmen
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Many passengers arose as early as 5:30 a.m. in the Sacramento area to catch PSA Flight 182, a popular 7 a.m. commuter run for state officials and businessmen with errands in the California capital, Los Angeles or San Diego. With Captain McFeron, 45, a 17-year veteran PSA pilot with 14,382 flying hours in his log, at the controls, the flight landed uneventfully in Los Angeles with its 130 passengers. There 102 lucky travelers got off, but an unfortunate 100 boarded the plane for its 35-minute southward leg to San Diego. In addition to a crew...
...vast majority of new planes are going to businessmen," says Ed Stimpson, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. One reason is that the nation's corporate structure is becoming increasingly decentralized, its manufacturing plants scattered around the country. Claims Stimpson: "The company plane is seen today as a vital business tool, a real timesaving machine...
Remember the '50s. Nuf said. Remember the '40s, when our fathers died to rid the world of Capitalism's Evil Mutant, while our economy entered the state capitalist stage, run by and for big businessmen. Remember the '30s, when our poliomyelitic system acquired the leg braces that allowed it to keep playing hardball--braces like unemployment compensation, Social Security, deposit insurance, to make sure it never bottomed out again. Remember the '20s--the corporations are much bigger now, and they've expanded from Peoria to Pretoria...
...newspaper business, the chairmen of the board direct editorial content, although in a more subtle fashion. Rarely does an editor working for a chain newspaper receive a direct order to take certain stands on an issue. Instead the censorship occurs a priori-- when the editor is hired. The businessmen who run the corporation hire the editors who run the papers and write the editorials. Selecting an editor is an elaborate affair: The corporate leaders are careful to pick just their kind of guy and are willing spend many hours over lunch, at cocktail parties and conducting intense face-to-face...
Okun concedes that a binding-pledge policy would be a "do-or-die, make-or-break" gamble. If so many businessmen refused to sign that the Government was forced to buy from non-pledgers?or, worse, if the Administration winked at violations as the price of avoiding crippling strikes?President Carter would lose all chance of winning wage-price restraint. In Okun's view, the risk in not adopting a tough guidelines policy is worse: negotiations next year in the construction, auto and trucking industries could result in a wage explosion that would push inflation firmly back to double-digit...