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...Continental and Texas International was under way. In April two veteran Continental pilots proposed that company workers buy a majority of the firm's stock through an employee stock-ownership plan. Though skeptical of the plan at first, Feldman soon threw his support behind it in a last-ditch effort to stop Texas International. Lorenzo immediately challenged the legality of the plan. But the courts rejected his case. Continental employees still had hopes for the plan they called "the answer to a prayer...
...will cut personal jates by a total of 25% and provide a bevy of benefits for oil firms, savings and loan institutions, commodities traders and other businesses with powerful lobbyists. Altogether, the bill will reduce federal revenues by $750 billion by fiscal 1986. Senator Edward Kennedy made a last-ditch fight against some of the $33 billion worth of giveaways to the oil industry but accomplished little more than to annoy colleagues anxious to begin the August recess. Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts similarly tried to reopen debate on these provisions in the House and was resoundingly beaten back...
...project, and the plant is seen by its backers as central to American nuclear development. The President is a strong supporter of nuclear power, and the Administration has lobbied hard to continue Clinch River's funding. Last week the House voted down, 206 to 186, a last-ditch attempt to cancel 1982 appropriations for the plant. The Senate Energy Committee had earlier authorized funds without debate...
...through this long trench with mucky water, under and over barrels. And you'd better be screaming like a banshee when you come up for air. I had one more barrel to go under and as I dove down I could see an officer pissing into the ditch, just to spite me. I was so psyched I didn't blink an eye, and I broke water yelling as loud as I could...
...matter how dazzling, heart transplants and mechanical hearts are last-ditch measures. They will save, at best, a tiny fraction of the lives now claimed by heart disease. Fewer than 50 heart transplants are done each year in the U.S., owing to the difficulty of finding donors, the unsolved problem of tissue rejection and the high cost (averaging...