Word: flightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted, perestroika is crucially different in that it goes hand in hand with profound political change. Maybe the plane's engines can really be repaired in mid-flight, as the unreassuring metaphor has it. But it will be an arduous process, requiring much more than injections of cash...
...stress levels in the airline industry eased last week, when three major labor disputes were resolved. Just as 57,800 striking Boeing machinists were heading back to work, 2,250 Eastern Air Lines pilots and 4,400 flight attendants ended a bitter nine-month walkout...
...When Eastern's pilots and flight attendants walked out in support of striking machinists last March, they helped force the airline into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their hopes that the U.S. bankruptcy court would impose an acceptable settlement were dashed as the Chapter 11 proceedings dragged on and Eastern hired new nonunion workers to replace the strikers. Last week the pilots and flight attendants gave up. The machinists still pin their hopes on the court...
Cynthia Price Ossa, wife of the flight's pilot, Jose Ossa, is from Baton Rouge, La., and lives in Bogota with the couple's four children...
...Flight 203 was bound for Cali, about 190 miles southwest of Bogota. Cali is the headquarters of one of Colombia's biggest cocaine cartels and has been the site of frequent bombings and other attacks since the government declared was on drug lords in August...