Word: pers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abstract, making money through unethical actions is reprehensible to a liberal's conscience. When posed as a hypothetical choice--principles or money--the decision is easy. But in reality, $15 per hour weighs heavily against abstract principles...
...facilities, including the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass., the George R. Agassiz Station in Fort Davis, Tex., the 176-inch equivalent Multiple Mirror (MMT) telescope at the Whipple Oberservatory in Amado, Ariz., and the VAX II Cluster mainframe computers at the CFA, which can perform two million calculations per second...
...that when you fly Eastern Shuttle to New York, you are making a $29 donation to Frank Lorenzo's fund to bust the machinists. The strike is extremely expensive for Lorenzo, and for Texas Air, of which Lorenzo is chair. Eastern, before the strike, was losing $1 million per day. Now its losses are enormous...
Lorenzo broke the Continental Airlines unions during a 1983 strike. Continental machinists now make a maxiumum of $16 per hour, $2.50 per hour less than machinists in the rest of the industry. Some carriers pay their top machinists more than $19 per hour. Lorenzo wants to run a non-union airline and reap windfall profits for himself and Texas Air. The man is a greedy slime...
...million cable homes -- a respectable starting figure, though substantially lower than either FNN (32 million) or CNN (50 million). Costs are expected to top $60 million before the channel begins operating in the black. (Revenues will come from advertising and a basic charge to cable systems of 7 cents per subscriber.) Most cable analysts, however, give top-rated NBC and its well-heeled corporate parent, General Electric, a good shot at making the service a success...