Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delta Airlines has long had a deserved reputation for maintaining unusually good relations with its employees. Now the line's largely nonunionized staff of 37,000 is showing its gratitude with a help-the-company gesture so generous that even Delta's corporate management has been left speechless...
...appreciation for an 8% September pay raise, as well as for the company's refusal to lay off workers despite an $18 million operating loss in the first quarter of 1982, Delta employees have begun chipping in to buy the airline a new Boeing 767 for about $30 million. Explains Flight Attendant Jean Owens of Atlanta: "We know what a hard time the airlines have been having, and we just wanted to say thanks for the way Delta has treated...
...exacerbates every issue. Alone in America, it has no state-supported system of kindergartens, and earlier this year the legislature defeated Governor Winter's kindergarten bill, which would mainly have benefited poor black children. Conversely, the congressional race this fall in the Second District, which mostly comprises the Delta, strikes into the very core of everything Mississippi and the South could become. A black man, Robert Clark, an influential legislator, won the Democratic nomination this summer with substantial white support and faces a Reagan Republican in November. He could become the first black Congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction...
...current quarter. Declining passenger traffic and cut-rate fares pushed income down for other carriers. American Airlines saw earnings tumble 98% to $466,000; Trans World Corp. posted a 27% decline to $41.6 million; UAL, Inc., parent company of United Airlines, suffered a 36% slump to $5.5 million; and Delta saw profits shrink 52% to $23 million...
...assume 60 percent of all the nuclear weaponns on both sides were destroyed, an event whose possibility I would calculate as somewhere between epsilon and delta....In other words, you have to go so far from where we are now to a period in which there isn't a very complex game of nuclear deterrence, that I think we're in it for the long term...