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...planting the first olive tree, Athena is located in the heart of the tranquil Waipara Valley, an hour north of Christchurch. Owner Helen Clausen gives tours of the farm, but restive visitors seem more interested in the tasting than the talking-and with good reason. Athena's first-pressed, extra-virgin oil is as green and viscous as a fruit nectar, and quite exquisite. Flavored oils (including lemon and pepper) are also available. International shipments can be arranged at www.athenaolives.co.nz...
...There are still more surprises, like two-way radio functionality (if you buy extra handsets), a baby monitor option, and a backup battery in case of power failure. Oh, I almost forgot: it also has a built-in answering machine...
Weak earnings have diluted the company's profit-sharing payments and hurt employee morale. Many pilots have left because they were dissatisfied with their pay and disliked being assigned extra jobs on the ground. Between 1984 and 1985, the number of pilots dropped from 1,100 to about 950. "We're having a family crisis," says Philip Rogers, a 727 captain who has stayed on. Burr says the remaining pilots are enough to fly the fleet, and new ones are being hired...
...Service. The graying, portly Ezell, 48, has taken an obscure job and made himself the point man in the Administration's war against illegal entry. He earns $68,000 a year to supervise 3,900 INS employees in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, but if he were paid extra for every raid he has led and every word he has uttered in public--or by the amount of wrath he has aroused--Ezell would be rich. Not just a law enforcer, he is a crusader...
...assembled into pages each week. IMPACT then beamed the late-closing pages to TIME's U.S. and overseas printing plants. "Because the pages dealing with Reykjavik were held past deadline, we had to arrange special late crews at all ten U.S. plants," said Corporate Operations Manager Elaine Fry. "Extra delivery trucks were dispatched in some cities to rush the issue to the newsstands...