Word: eckel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union sources claimed that they had already offered deep concessions to Continental. Pilots, they said, had agreed to give up $60 million in wages, flight attendants $40 million. Said Pilot Paul Eckel: "Sure we have an inflated wage structure, but there's a right way and a wrong way to correct that...
...that gives a "positive" reflection: no longer, for example, will people who part their hair on the left see the part as being on the righthand side, as a regular mirror shows it. Developed over a six-year period by two former M.I.T. engineering students, George Lechter and David Eckel, it is called the Really Me mirror and retails for about $50. Some 5,000 have been sold, many to speech therapists, who use them to guide patients' mouth exercises, and to plastic surgeons, who use them in consultations to help patients understand what they can expect from operations...