Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following week with his wife Harriet. That is, until Flyway Air called: "Sorry, Mr. Hapless. Due to our merger with Byway Air, your Florida flight has been canceled." Harry got so angry he was going to call the Federal Aviation Administration / immediately. But just then his phone went dead -- no doubt because the Bell System had been split up, he imagined. Well, that was the last straw. A few minutes later a wild-eyed Harry burst into the newsroom of his local newspaper. "I've got a story for you!" he cried. "There is no more service in America...
Unmollified, a crowd of 3,000 blacks marched down Fifth Avenue with banners expressing anger over Howard Beach. "We are all angry, we are all oppressed!" cried Chris Griffith, brother of the dead man. To antagonists on both sides, Howard Beach is now a kind of battle cry. Two blacks reported last week that they had been attacked by a gang of white youths shouting "Howard Beach!" and two whites reported a similar attack by similarly chanting blacks...
...subject of Reagan's competence comes up more bluntly in the media. "Brain Dead," the title of an article in the New Republic, referred to the lack of new ideas within the Reagan Administration as a whole but carried a not-very-subtle implication about the President as well. A story in the Washington Post reported that Chief of Staff Donald Regan had formed the Administration's position on federal pay raises with only "minimal" involvement from the President, and one in the New York Times described how congressional leaders had come away from meetings with Reagan wondering...
...even some supporters of a hike acknowledge that an increased minimum wage would still be disdained by large numbers of jobless young people, who are not inspired by the prospect of flipping hamburgers at a fast-food franchise. "These are dead-end jobs," says Lorna Barnes, an account executive at Chicago's Minority Economic Resources Corporation, which trains and places young people in jobs. Barnes contends that an aggressive job- education and retraining program would have far greater impact than a minimum- wage increase. That seems to be one idea on which left and right can agree: the Reagan Administration...
...Ecuador's President, is a free man again after a bizarre incident last week in which he was held hostage for eleven hours at an air base by rebellious air force officers. Febres Cordero and his Defense Minister were captured after a brief fire fight that left two people dead...