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...most flights taking off at half-capacity and the major carriers announcing a 20 percent long-term reduction in the number of flights offered, the financial fallout will extend well beyond the airline industry. Boeing, the nation’s leading aircraft manufacturer, has already announced that it will lay off as many as 30,000 machinists and other workers. In response to these feared layoffs, Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.) has announced plans to introduce a $3.75 billion bill that would provide health coverage, job training and unemployment benefits for former airline workers...
What he didn't know was that Guzman had started down the stairs when word came to evacuate. At floor 13, the building collapsed, and Guzman's head was caught between two pillars. She lay in fear and agony for hours. She felt a man trapped near her and pushed next to him for comfort. She heard him cry out twice; eventually, he fell silent. She repeatedly asked God, "Please give me a second chance at life." There was only darkness and dust. So she said another prayer: "Please just give me this one miracle." And a man appeared above...
...resilient people. From broken glass and steel shrapnel, a renewed spirit springs forth. American pride, whose presence lay submerged beneath the complications of identity politics, now quickly emerges as the mantra du jour...
...just the first 10 pages Gornick is able to lucidly illustrate the importance of the complex relationship between subject and narrator and lay the groundwork to delve into how to understand and express this relationship. But in some ways Gornick misses this golden opportunity. As a premier essayist with a large body of work to her name, Gornick has a vast supply of personal essays which she could draw upon to explain how she searches for this narrative persona in her own life. Who better to explain where she triumphed and where she fell short than the writer herself...
...stop, think it over - and then keep right on running. The bad mood was sensible enough - American Airlines announced 20,000 job cuts, and those ripples claimed Boeing, which despite an expected boost for its defense business said that the expected commercial-jet slowdown manufacturing would cause it to lay off 30,000 of its workers. And when it became apparent that institutional investors - the big money - was leading the stampede that pushed the NASDAQ below another long-ago low of1500, the mood started to look a lot like panic in the face of immeasurable uncertainty...