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Freshman Dele Fayemi pulled off an impressive double, finishing first in both the 60-yd. and 220-yd. dashes, while fellow Yardling Yamilee Bermingham was the first to break the tape in the quarter mile...
...races. Junior Jackie Boudreau and senior Janet Judge took first and second place respectively in both the triple and high jump, while Co-Captain Mariquita Patterson and junior Theresa Moore took those very same sports in the long jump. Not to be outdone, the distance corps won the 880, mile and 5000-meter competitions...
Part of Burr's success has been his policy of cutting amenities: passengers must pay for any checked luggage, even for a cup of coffee (50 cents). As a result, he has kept costs down to a little over 5 cents per seat-mile, vs. an industry average of 8.5 cents. One key way of keeping those costs down is that Burr hires only "managers" (even a flight attendant is a "customer- service manager"), and all 4,000 full-time employees must move around in several different kinds of jobs. Burr occasionally takes his turn as a steward. Not only...
Unlike the telecommunications business, the nuclear power industry strained under a yoke of regulation. Ever since the 1979 nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, stepped-up safety precautions have made the building of atomic power facilities an increasingly complex and expensive job. Utility companies stopped work on eight nuclear construction projects in 1984. Nuclear woes generated financial difficulties for several utilities, including Long Island Lighting and Consumers Power of Michigan...
...chemical industry had a Three Mile Island of its own when a gas leak at a Union Carbide plant killed some 2,500 people in Bhopal, India. The company faces a flurry of lawsuits that threaten its financial future. In the wake of the disaster, chemical manufacturers will have to take a hard look at safety procedures. Moreover, companies in all kinds of industries will need to examine whether their ways of doing business in foreign countries measure up to their standards at home. Said a shaken Warren Anderson, chairman of Union Carbide: "I think Bhopal has changed the world...