Word: newark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roaring comeback from near bankruptcy, Chrysler has long seemed invulnerable to adversity. Suddenly, though, the proud No. 3 automaker's image has suffered back-to-back black eyes. Last week the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Chrysler $1.6 million for 811 alleged workplace violations at a Newark, Del., plant that produces Chrysler LeBarons, Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliants. The penalty, the largest ever imposed by OSHA, came only twelve days after a U.S. grand jury indicted Chrysler for selling cars as new that had actually been driven -- with their odometers disconnected -- by employees...
Gazing out of her window as she rode a jumbo jet from London to Newark last * Wednesday, Passenger Candi Meacham was enjoying the clear blue Atlantic vista when her reverie was rudely shattered. Suddenly what had at first seemed to be just a speck in the sky became another airliner that was streaking right toward her Continental Airlines 747. "I knew it was going to hit us," the Jacksonville homemaker recalled with a shudder...
...With her looks and talent," says Warwick, "she had all the credentials. Her success was something that was supposed to happen. And like all of us in the family, Whitney was singing from the moment she came out," on Aug. 9, 1963, in Newark. After the Newark riots of 1967, the Houstons moved to a two- story house in East Orange, where Cissy still lived until this March. For the most part they were an ordinary family, except that Mom would occasionally hit the road to sing backups for Elvis, Aretha or Dionne. While Cissy toured with her group...
...heavy competition between Pan Am, TWA, British Airways and other carriers, there is excess capacity on some routes. Nonstop flights now depart daily from more than a dozen U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Dallas. Next week Continental Airlines will take off over the Atlantic with its Newark-Paris service. The airline is opening with a three-month giveaway: for just $1 more than the basic $667 roundtrip coach fare, Continental will throw in five nights in a three-star Paris hotel, a saving of some $250 a person, based on double occupancy...
John Giordano and his son Steve are the other bona fiders. John's father, who founded the bakery in 1913, came over from Caserta, near Naples ("like Belleville to Newark, a stone's throw"). John now lives in an apartment over the shop. A small man in thick purple-tinted glasses, he sometimes wears a battered fedora, Jimmy Durante-style, and likes to share a lifetime of wisdom, usually prefaced by the phrase "You know what's wrong with this country...