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...Lines. Since 1987 the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (I.A.M.) has staunchly resisted Lorenzo's demands for wage concessions. At midnight last Friday, after more than a year of federal mediation failed to produce an agreement, the union launched a strike that is producing havoc for the carrier's 100,000 daily passengers and could throw East Coast airports and other transportation hubs into turmoil...
Both sides in the dispute realize that a strike at the financially hemorrhaging carrier may finally send Eastern to "the corporate graveyard," as Lorenzo puts it. Eastern posted record losses of $335 million in 1988 and since then has been losing an estimated $1 million a day, a deficit that can only grow during the strike...
Eastern pilots, who virtually shut down the money-losing carrier by honoring picket lines of the striking machinists union, are risking not only their careers but "the very existence" of the airline, said Robin Matell, a spokesperson for Eastern...
...profoundly intimate marriage of science and dream, progress and exploration -- what, in fact, the New World had always stood for. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," Lyndon Johnson told the astronauts by telephone aboard the carrier Yorktown. "You've seen what man has never seen before." One of those things, which was to grow in significance in forthcoming decades, was the earth's finitude: with Apollo 8, humanity had found a godlike perch from which to examine its collective limits...
...dozens of presidential task forces and commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however, see Quayle as an envoy to, rather than from, the right, "another set of eyes and ears" for the President. Says...