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...Angeles, Houston, Chicago and New York and recreation meccas like Hawaii and Florida. But there have been losers too. Some 60 cities have been stripped of all scheduled airline service. In Chattanooga, which lost much of its service when United and Eastern pulled out this year, James Hunt, a Chamber of Commerce executive, says unhappily of deregulation: "Count us as one of the minuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dividends from Deregulation | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Dressed in a crisp white shirt and pressed Levis, he strode purposefully into the freshly whitewashed chamber at Nevada State Prison, near Carson City. "He looked as if he were ready to go to a disco," recalls TIME's Guy Shipler, one of 14 official witnesses. The man was then strapped into a metal chair, a long stethoscope tube poking out from his collar and snaking through a wall socket into a side room, where a doctor waited to monitor his heartbeat. At 12:14 a.m., a capsule of cyanide gas tumbled down a tube and plopped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's Go | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Terming the death penalty ''an occupational hazard'' in his line of work, Bishop refused to authorize an appeal of his case even when given the chance to do so minutes before entering the gas chamber. Said he: ''This is just one more step down the road of life that I've been heading all my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's Go | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...court hands down more than half again as many written opinions as it did 25 years ago, and at term's end, the Justices often find ''themselves rushing to finish their drafts. Says Powell: "The pressure of time prevents us from going from chamber to chamber to work things out. The lack of opportunity for collegiality diminishes as the case load increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Today Canizaro is a power in the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce the Downtown Development District, the Symphony, and a director of the Tulane University Medical Center. To some, he will always be an outsider "You can walk through New Orleans today and hear rumors that I am going broke " Small chance of that. Still, he says, "I honestly believe that if I lost everything I would be successful again in a reasonably short period of time." Canizaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Outsider Makes it Big | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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