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...result, the cutthroat corporate scene is pushing many potential applicants away...
Saddam 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...
...miseries are not the countryside's only plight. Thanks to bumper harvests around the world, wheat farmers face their lowest returns in more than half a century, and the international embargo on exports to Iraq has also eliminated Australia's second-biggest customer. Aggravating the crisis is cutthroat grain dumping by the U.S. and the European Community; both unload surplus wheat overseas at subsidized prices...
Those laid off from manufacturing jobs face even harder struggles in an age of weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
...first Godfather films sketched a history of the Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the screenplay with Puzo, sends Michael on a side trip to Rome and Sicily...