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...agency with the next largest total in sponsorship moneys was the National Science Foundation, which funded $17.4 million research. Some $13 million went to research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Division of Applied Sciences...
January 1987: After 18 months of independent organizing with virtually no funds, HUCTW receives national backing when it affiliates with the American Federation of State, Country, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). AFSCME, the largest union in the AFL-CIO, vows to give HUCTW as much support as it needs to win the election and contributes $500,000 to the campaign right...
Fairfax's decision to sell the two magazines represents an abrupt about- face. It was only a year ago that the company, which is Australia's second largest publishing concern, dispatched Yates to the U.S. to create Sassy, an American version of Fairfax's fabulously successful Australian teen magazine Dolly. Last September, upon hearing that Ms. Founders Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine were looking for a new source of funding, Yates persuaded her Australian bosses to buy the magazine for a reported $10 million. She then installed Summers, a feminist historian and former chief of Fairfax's New York bureau...
...most dramatic of mechanical snafus that have ranged from clogged fuel filters to rusted-through floors to cracked turbine blades. Last month the FAA launched a special inspection of all jets operated by Continental and Eastern airlines in response to recurring accusations that their parent, Texas Air, the largest U.S. airline company, was cutting corners on maintenance because of its financial troubles. Even the reliability of new jets came under assault last month, when two foreign carriers, Japan Air Lines and British Airways, complained strongly about malfunctions on freshly assembled Boeing 747s and 767s...
...sharpest charges of maintenance laxity have been leveled at Texas Air and its two struggling carriers, Eastern and Continental. In assembling the largest U.S. air company (market share: 20%) and making it the industry's discount leader, Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has tried to cut costs drastically. His pressure for concessions from unions at Eastern, especially on pilots and machinists, has prompted bitter accusations that the company is flying close to the edge. Pilots for Continental and Eastern claim they are given planes with problems ranging from broken gauges to leaking fuel tanks, while Eastern mechanics say their nonunion...