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...Hussein was not Midway's only problem: the airline hobbled itself in 1989 by agreeing to pay Eastern Airlines more than $100 million for a hub in Philadelphia. But with a deepening recession, fuel prices that more than doubled with the gulf crisis and cutthroat competition in the Northeast corridor, Midway was forced to retreat and put its Philadelphia gates back on the block last year. The company ended up selling those operations to USAir for only $64.5 million. Mainly as a result of that sale, Midway posted a $139.2 million loss last year. Yet with completion of the sale...
...land on which Scheme Z will be built has for many years served as a trasportation corridor. Most of the land is undeveloped, cluttered with sand pits and railroad tracks...
...problem with Scheme Z goes beyone what it will bring to East Cambridge. The real problem is what it will keep away. If Scheme Z goes through, no matter how wonderful the effects will be for Boston, North Point in East Cambridge will be doomed to remain a transportation corridor forever...
...phones kept working. We worked out systems for calling one another, three rings, hang up, then three more rings. The person called never spoke first. To take our telephones into more soundproof rooms, we extended phone lines with lamp wire. At safer hours we slipped up and down corridors to meet together in different apartments. On the hall floor outside my apartment, I positioned a piece of broken mirror against the wall so that the entire length of the corridor was visible from my partly open door. It was a group rule that everyone checked the mirror before stepping into...
Recently I returned home to find magazine pages at my feet, ripped into angry shreds. They were originally photographs of women's faces that I had pulled out of a magazine to dress an otherwise bare corridor wall...