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American Airlines, Continental Airlines and United Airlines all experienced flight delays of two hours or more due to the weather, though Northwest Airlines officials said they were experiencing no delays...
...fact, one main reason airlines have made money at all is the concessions they have wrung from their workers. Thanks to a three-year agreement to reduce employees' pay 12%, the once deeply troubled Northwest Airlines has saved $886 million. American, United and Delta are all turning profits, thanks to layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, like the sale of nonessential assets, such as flight kitchens. These carriers all registered millions in third-quarter profits, with labor concessions playing a significant role. Says an impatient Denise Hedges, the head of American's 21,000-member flight attendants' union: "We have...
...Czechs believe the toxins drifted over ground troops after allied forces blew up an Iraqi chemical installation 100 miles northwest of Kuwait. U.S. defense officials have rejected that idea because they believe the wind was blowing in the opposite direction -- back into Iraq. Furthermore, they found no evidence of casualties caused by chemical agents anywhere near the site of the attack...
...attempted abduction of another toddler the same day. The ghastliness of the case and the youth of the defendants shocked the nation and particularly Liverpool, where mobs demonstrated against the boys. For the sake of fairness, the trial was moved 20 miles north to Preston (about 220 miles northwest of London...
...from Portland, Ore.: Rebecca Gates sings and guitars, Scott Plouf drums. (He used to play the trumpet, too, but he seems to have stopped doing that since their last tour.) They're part of what must be the second, or third, or fourth wave of Pacific Northwest "minimalism" since Beat Happening decided around `83 that rock and roll could do without bass guitars for a while; at the moment--and as their show last week at the Middle East proved--the Spinanes are THE most talented exponent of this particular brand of stripped-down...