Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mechanics and flight crews by walking off their jobs, and their action grounded all but a handful of the airline's 250 planes. With a dwindling war chest of $200 million, hemorrhaging at a rate of $4 million a day, Eastern was forced to file for protection under the Chapter 11 provisions of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Lorenzo used the same tactic 5 1/2 years ago to break the unions and reorganize Continental, but this time, under revised bankruptcy laws, he will find the process more arduous...
...charge was denied by the Miami-based carrier, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Thursday...
Conveniently, under the provisions of Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws, Lorenzo was allowed to void all prior union contracts to help bring Continental back to its feet. Today, Continental Airlines flies the skies again--staffed by nonunion workers...
...Mirror's pages read like a chapter from Tom Peters' In Search of Excellence. In this place of punishment, achievement is possible and highly promoted. The newsmakers in a fall edition of the Mirror were Karta Singh and the other bonsai-club members, who practically blew away the civilian competition at the Minnesota State Fair. "I'm ecstatic about it," Singh told the Mirror. "Winning a blue ribbon motivates me even more, and I think it's a testament to the quality of instruction we're getting...
...keyboard, Taliaferro cradles the telephone receiver just above the monogrammed RT on his black jersey. Like the capable editor of a small-town newspaper, Taliaferro has the reader by the pulse. He is a leader of his captive constituency: vice president of the Jaycees' Star of the North prison chapter, a leader of a black-culture group and a big editorial voice inside these walls. "I'm a black redneck," he says with a casual smile. If he were free, he'd have voted for George Bush for President even though he thought his candidate didn't understand prison furloughs...