Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, changes in labor law since the 1983 Continental strike have made it more difficult for airline owners to bust unions. Every other major airline operates profitably in cooperation with its unions, and will continue to do so, eliminating the possibility of a general reduction in airline fares through deunionization of the industry. Continental will remain the only non-union airline...
...panel agreed with its counsel, Chicago attorney Richard J. Phelan, that Mallick's major interests in real estate and oil and gas ventures and in redevelopment of Fort Worth's historic stockyards district gave him a direct interest in legislation on taxation and on certain appropriations bills. His financing arrangements with savings and loan institutions also gave him an interest in legislation involving the Savings and Loan industry, the committee found...
...also completed a sweep by Ethiopian runners in the weekend's major marathon races: Belaine Densimo, the world's fastest marathoner, won the Rotterdam Marathon Sunday, and Keleke Metaferia led a 1-2 finish in the International Amateur Athletic Federation World Cup Marathon at Milan, Italy...
...concentrators are more likely than men in the field or women in other departments to: 1) feel uncomfortable in class 2) see sexism as a problem in the department and 3) think that they must fight to talk in class. the report found that many women opt not to major in government because of the competitive students...
Stepping up to the microphones during a Manhattan press conference last week, Peter Ueberroth looked every inch the Designated Hero. Frank Lorenzo, the embattled chairman of Texas Air, had just announced that an investor group headed by the boyish-looking former commissioner of major league baseball will buy strike-bound and bankrupt Eastern Air Lines for $464 million. Celebrating Ueberoth's move in a Miami union hall where they heard the news, boisterous Eastern machinists began singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game. The initial response of striking employees to their prospective new boss held promise that Ueberroth...