Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday Eastern won permission from a U.S. district court to order I.A.M. workers to take a day off with pay. Citing "significant amounts of vandalism" at Eastern facilities last month, Joseph Leonard, chief operating officer of the airline, said the carrier was concerned that if the angry union members were not sent home they would engage in sabotage...
...dubbed the "Mumblin' Mayor," Sawyer made a few creditable appointments. But he also proved indecisive, delaying for a full week the firing of a subordinate who had made blatantly anti-Semitic speeches. Sawyer was reduced to claiming that he had accepted the keys to city hall in order to achieve gains for blacks. "Had I not taken those keys," declared Sawyer, "the ethnic rainbow we see would not be there. I'm going to keep the keys to keep the dream alive...
Cash-strapped Pan Am, by contrast, cannot afford to purchase new jets. ! Instead, the airline is overhauling its 35 747s. But keeping older planes in good running order is also costly. Pan Am spends an average $815 in maintenance costs for every hour that a plane is carrying passengers, vs. $377 for Delta, which has a newer fleet and advanced maintenance equipment. Some experts and airline employees have contended that cash-strapped airlines will be tempted to skimp on maintenance. But when the FAA conducted an intensive probe of one such carrier, Eastern, no serious faults were found...
Frequent flyers rarely expect to dine well in the air. But some have found the secrets to survival: fly a foreign carrier, order special meals, or bring your...
...novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...