Word: failings
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...invoking the 1926 National Railway Labor Act, which governs relations for the airline industry. While American pilots are back in the cockpit, a three-member emergency board named by Clinton will take a month to propose a settlement. If the union and the airline's parent company AMR fail to reach an agreement on the proposal within another month, Congress may impose one. "This dispute needs to be resolved as soon as possible," the President said in his statement, citing concerns that a strike would have cost $100 million a day. American carries 220,000 passengers daily or 20 percent...
Even the most skeptical Benedik among us cannot fail to appreciate the entertainment value, let alone psychological insight, the "Datamatch" computer questionaire provided--and for a mere $1 at that...
...invoking the 1926 National Railway Labor Act, which governs relations for the airline industry. While American pilots are back in the cockpit, a three-member emergency board named by Clinton will take a month to propose a settlement. If the union and the airline's parent company AMR fail to reach an agreement on the proposal within another month, Congress may impose one. "This dispute needs to be resolved as soon as possible," the President said in his statement, citing concerns that a strike would have cost $100 million a day. American carries 220,000 passengers daily or 20 percent...
Meanwhile the Russians seem to be falling in love with economics. This is because Russia still has to indoctrinate the fundamentals of economic theory into its people. We have outgrown this need and have found that modern Americans have very little use for highly abstract and sophisticated theories that fail to explain reality. In order for Russia's transition to a free-market system to be both permanent and stable, grounding economic theories in its children seems to be a must. American children know it naturally; Russian children must be taught it. So while it may strike us as strange...
...investment banker, which he shares with the two other prominent members of Clinton's negotiating team, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Theirs is a culture in which winning is cutting the deal and the politician's concept of a strategic defeat--to fail now so you can triumph later--is just money wasted. That Raines should find himself on the front lines at this moment is also the culmination of a personal voyage in which he managed to take a Democrat's life story and turn it into a Republican's resume...