Word: dealing
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...unions with which the company must deal, none carries anywhere near the clout of the flyboys and -girls, a highly trained, highly paid and highly agitated bunch who have always seen themselves on a par with management, with one exception: pilots cannot be replaced quickly or easily. The pilots' union badly bloodied United Airlines in a strike in 1985, and pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss...
...stuff. He has frequently antagonized the pilots over the years and once even mocked a pilot-commissioned study of the company, saying, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." But he may also have misread apa's intent. Crandall thought he had a deal last fall, but a hard-line union contingent, working through the Internet, mobilized membership to reject a contract offer blessed by the union's executive committee...
Even as AT&T was slathering the airwaves with promises of a 15[cents]-a-minute rate last week, the Wall Street Journal caught the phone giant offering 10[cents]-a-minute rates to persnickety callers who phoned AT&T and asked for the best possible deal. AT&T--which declared itself profoundly "unembarrassed" by the revelations--said the 10[cents] rate would be offered only on a "case by case basis." And although AT&T won't say what it takes to qualify, they did hint that bigger bills were more likely to get bigger discounts. "Our effort...
...volatile business, the Weinsteins have long been king of the indies. "They're artists, entrepreneurs and passionate maniacs," says DreamWorks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg. "They have extraordinary gut meters for what's good, they're unbelievable salesmen, and they're equally painful to have to deal with. Together they are the Irving Thalberg of our time...
...mourning period following the death of Deng Xiaoping, a development Albright said was "an extremely good sign" that China will move toward even greater cooperation with Albright's mission: to press China's leadership on human rights. According to a New York Times report, China is close to a deal that would include signing two key U.N. covenants on human rights, and conducting a good faith release of up to eight political prisoners. But if any progress was made Monday, Albright wasn't talking. "We admitted we had a difference on it," she said after five hours of talks with...