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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Braniff's bullish executives had hoped to find a niche for the midsize airline by developing a hub at the Kansas City airport, an opening that was created by a retrenchment at bankrupt Eastern Airlines. But Braniff's business failed to grow fast enough to support its debt payments. When a recent bridge financing deal for $75 million fell through, Braniff was strapped for cash. The bankrupt airline, which has laid off 2,800 of its 4,800 employees, hopes to rebuild slowly...
...Houston lawyer Arthur Dula a dreamy eccentric, or a cosmic entrepreneur? For nearly three years he has toiled with little success to find U.S. customers for the Soviet Union's space program. Undaunted, Dula scored a coup in June when the Soviet space agency named him its exclusive American business partner. The attorney now hawks everything from advertising space on Soviet rockets to tours of launching pads...
...will recognize "important efforts to preserve or enhance the environment," from protecting endangered species to combatting pollution. The idea is to give conservationists the kind of recognition and prestige afforded to Nobel laureates. Says Richard Goldman, president of the foundation and a longtime environmental crusader: "We're trying to find people who can inspire others, people who make a difference." + The first Goldman prizes will be announced in April...
...from the National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000 adoptions by * nonrelatives in 1986. The figure would be much higher were it not for a great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped go begging for homes. In 1986 the nation's foster-care system harbored at least 36,000 of these adoptable "special-needs" children. Some 13,500 found families. That same year more...
...recent years Koreans have begun to question the propriety of shipping so many infants abroad. The government has stepped up its promotion of birth control and urged Korean families to adopt. Last year the number of children coming to the U.S. fell 18%, and prospective parents must find other channels...