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...skirmish at a time, tiny battles at the perimeter of individual privacy and choice. One hero in this ongoing conflict is Teresa Fischette, 38, a ticket agent for Continental Airlines at Boston's Logan International Airport. Eager to establish a new image for its ground personnel, the carrier last May decreed that its female ticket agents must wear makeup. Fischette refused, was fired, but was then offered a job where she would not be in contact with customers. No way: Fischette filed suit. With the case gaining national publicity, Continental gave Fischette her job back (with back pay) and shaded...
...hold even in the Soviet military. According to U.S. intelligence sources, annual tank production has dropped from 3,500 in 1988 to just 800, and similar cutbacks are taking place on Air Force assembly lines. While the Soviet navy remains the lone holdout against perestroika by continuing a nuclear-carrier program, there are encouraging signs of change there too. The Severodvinsk shipyards have produced a tourist submarine, complete with large glass viewing portholes and devices for picking things up off the ocean floor...
...Lines, and the hubs that come to mind are Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Dallas. But now Delta customers can dream of more exotic destinations: Brussels, Vienna, Rome, New Delhi, Moscow. Last week Delta snapped up most of what's left of failing Pan Am, collecting the pioneering carrier's transatlantic routes serving Europe, Asia and Africa, its sprawling Frankfurt hub, its northeastern shuttle and other assets -- for just $260 million, about what the shuttle alone would have cost a year ago. Even as Delta was announcing its coup, United Airlines was circling over the remains, negotiating...
Opportunities also abound in the Pacific, the fastest-growing airline market in the world. But Northwest, which recently gave way to United as the largest U.S. carrier to Asia, is hard pressed to match its stronger rivals. Its parent firm is burdened with heavy interest payments on some $1.5 billion in takeover debt. And the airline lost $62 million on revenues of $1.6 billion during the first three months of this year...
...gulf war was fought largely by air attacks against ground forces. Allied officers have tried to calculate the casualties from the numbers of tanks, other vehicles and artillery pieces destroyed. But aerial photography cannot disclose, for example, how many men a wrecked armored personnel carrier might have carried, let alone how many were killed or wounded or escaped unharmed...