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...countless other newspaper bargaining sessions, the sticking points in New York were job security and automation. The city's publishers have been trying for more than 15 years to revamp their antediluvian production methods and eliminate wasteful staffing practices, but the craft unions, fearing job losses and declining membership, have always resisted. In March 1977, the Publishers Association, representing the three dailies, informed the pressmen that when the old contract expired on March 30, 1978, it intended to demand major changes in work rules. The papers hope to reduce through attrition the swollen crews and institute "room manning...
...first time in 15 years, New York's major dailies were shut down. The 1,500-member Newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union called the strike against the Times, News and Post (combined circulation: 3.4 million) and was backed up by all but one of its nine fellow craft unions (the typesetters, the only holdouts, have a no-strike contract) as well as by the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial employees. New Yorkers found their familiar newsstands either closed or peddling increased press runs of the Wall Street Journal and suburban papers; uninformed shoppers could not take advantage...
...which he had whisked her off her feet the night before. Cut to a bar, where our man casually watches the television, which announces that an Alitalia jet with 86 people aboard had just blown up after take-off, probably due to a terrorist bomb planted on the craft planted on the craft just prior to fateful departure. Ho ho ho. Certainly this is no stab at humor, but even as a piece of wry social comment, it still fails. Isn't Starsky and Hutch enough...
...other port is reserved for the Soyuz ferry craft that brought Kovalenok and Ivanchenkov to Salyut and will eventually return them to earth...
...British connection would probably make Boeing's new-generation aircraft easier to sell in the Common Market. European governments sometimes have forced their airlines to buy their own country's planes even though they were inferior to U.S. craft. France and Britain have been the worst offenders, saddling Air France and British Airways with money losers from the Caravelle to the Concorde. The European carriers now claim that they are free to pick the best jet. The problem is that the Boeing 767 and Airbus 310 are so close in price and performance that the Europeans?and the dozens...