Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average annual salary for People Express's 14,000 full-time employees, who are all nonunion, is just over $20,000 a year, less than half the norm at larger airlines. But every employee is a stockholder and works hard. A People Express customer-service manager is a Jack-(or Jill) of-all-trades whose duties include serving as check-in clerk and flight attendant, plus stints at tasks ranging from accounting to fuel management...
Perhaps it was the change in venue, as much as Templeton's spark, that enlivened the Padres, winners of the NL West this season. Returning home after suffering in the unfriendly confines of Wrigley Field, the Padres played before the largest crowd ever at Jack Murphy Stadium, 58,346. The previous record was 52,134 set on July 4 this year against the Cubs...
...appointment to the Agency for International Development in Washington in 1981. Rich, well bred and painstakingly polite, Du Pont hopes to coast in on the President's popularity in the conservative state. She has been coached on tax cuts and the balanced-budget amendment by G.O.P. Supply-Siders Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich...
...polisher at Cadillac's Clark Avenue plant in Detroit for the past eight years. "I'm on the bottom of the totem pole. If we don't get job security now, I'm going to be pushed off." Concurs fellow Assembly Line Worker Jack Stewart, 30: "If you don't have that job, a wage increase isn't going to do you any good...
...only was Ironweed published to high praise but interest revived in Kennedy's previous novels, Billy Phelan and Legs, a fictional treatment of the life of Jack ("Legs") Diamond...