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When the music stops, American would command 24% of the U.S. market and would add valuable East Coast routes to its flight map. The airline, already dominant in such markets as Dallas and Miami, would become a force at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport, where it would pick up 17 gates and 84 takeoff and landing slots. United would also increase its presence in the populous Northeast and would raise its U.S. market share to 25%. And in a unique agreement, United and American would jointly operate the lucrative Boston-New York- Washington shuttle that US Airways...
...labor union and win $3 million in back pay. What's unusual is that the workers, predominantly from West Africa, are all undocumented. And, even more remarkable, these illegal immigrants, given lax immigration enforcement, have little reason to fear deportation. Indeed, one of them, Siaka Diakite, an Ivory Coast native, is now pictured in a widely distributed color brochure put out by the AFL-CIO. Says Charles Batchli, a plaintiff from the Congo: "It didn't matter who we were. We are human beings first. The question was, Were we taken advantage...
...Karima Sundarji, 31, Shared Vision's vice president of East Coast operations, the time-off policy is a chance to volunteer for a variety of organizations that assist kids and pregnant teenagers. In addition to the work she now does, Sundarji hopes to take part in youth counseling. "I have been able to bond and make some really close friends with people I work with," Sundarji says. "We share the same values, and that makes working together that much nicer." And it's these values that corporate America is banking on to keep employees from walking out the door...
...mother a committed environmentalist. Pearson discovered his vocation while hiking around Europe after high school. He spent a year in France as a wine-business intern after graduating in 1984 from the University of Southern California at Davis with a degree in oenology. Then he moved to the East Coast and a job in a research lab. Before long he was hankering for the wine trade again. He studied for an M.B.A., then joined Hublein to manage imports of Baron Philippe de Rothschild's wines to the U.S. Then the phone rang, with an offer to work on Mondavi...
...They leave few clues. But a band of environmental terrorists, which has left a trail of destruction across the Western and Midwestern U.S. for the past three years, is making no secret of its ambition to wage a wider war. In recent weeks it has struck on the East Coast, hitting targets on New York's Long Island...