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...walkout, scheduled to end next Sunday, signals the latest problem for an industry struggling to pull out of a three-year nose dive (total losses: $10 billion). Just as some big carriers -- American, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines among them -- have begun to post modest earnings, the long-quiescent airline unions have started voicing their demands. Workers who feel underpaid and overworked are asking for their share of the emerging profits. Management's response: continued cost cutting. "No question about it," says Morgan Stanley airline analyst Kevin Murphy, "1994 will be the year of labor turmoil...
Along the way, however, the brotherhood has also been losing rank-and-file members -- 500,000 since the mid-1970s, 68,000 of those just since Carey's election. This membership dive, along with mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth...
What she misses most about the circus: I just miss flying, being an aerialist. Now I dive, and I do platform diving, but I'm a trapeze artist. I miss making an audience happy every...
...worst thing about it: Definitely that I can't dive. Actually I feel pretty lucky because I can still do handstands and it's actually good, because they told me to keep the leg elevated...
...interior is pure beachfront eclectic, crammed with mismatched furniture, bullhorns, rubber snakes, paintings of World War II flying aces, antique mirrors, numberless pieces of nautical kitsch. It's not only the campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive jumping among the surfer and industry-big-shot set. The real attraction is 72-year-old proprietor Bill Fischler, who lords over his young cook Alfredo and his gorgeous Valkyrian waitress Veronica while he greets and gooses the customers. Part W.C. Fields, part Walter Matthau (plus...