Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sister airline, Continental, will continue to honor Eastern tickets, as "Eastern continues to work with other airlines to help establish policies for acceptance of Eastern tickets," the company said in a statement...
Eastern plans to honor any $12 return tickets held by stranded passengers through Friday...
...decision by Eastern pilots to honor the picket lines prompted the airline to file last week for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. Officials have said it is losing about $4 million...
This kind of easy tolerance among the powerful in Congress is what allows Tower to so adroitly muddy the waters surrounding his own ethical problems. The everybody-does-it defense may be cynical, but it has persuasive power, as long as Congress continues to confuse honor with honorariums. Ethics in government should be a bipartisan concern, not merely the responsibility of the Bush Administration. If the White House has fallen short of the standards it set during its much ballyhooed "ethics week," so too has the Democratic Congress been unwilling to judge itself by the criteria it sets for others...
Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...