Word: piedmont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There seemed to be the ingredients for some old-time demagoguery in this fall's election. The economic strain was palpable, from the Texas oil patch through the heartland cornfields to the Piedmont textile mills. Toss in the problems of Rocky Mountain mining, the timber woes of the Northwest, and despair in the Rust Belt and there was plenty of material for a latter-day rawboned, loudmouthed populist. Thus invited, none came to the party. There was a good deal of personal mudslinging, but of such limited imagination and low quality as to be totally forgettable...
...bigger airlines slowly fought back. United, American, Piedmont and others have set up two-tier hiring, with lower pay scales for new employees. On some planes, the three-person flight crews of yore have been reduced to two. Established airlines have been able to offer frequent-flyer programs and the convenience of powerful computerized reservation systems to woo back customers. The counterrevolution has to a large extent worked. Says George James, president of Washington's Airline Economics: "There is far less motivation for going into the industry now that the big companies can compete well...
...Start your engines, gentlemen," Carey could pen to an army of Anderzhons deployed from the Oregon plateau to the piedmont of the Carolinas. The visceral roar of the nation's 640,000 combines, were they all gathered in one spot for the harvest assault, would dwarf the sound of Patton's tanks pushing toward Bastogne. Yet the only violence would be to cornstalks and soybean plants, and in that death is life. "The thing about farming," writes Carey "is it's so easy, half of it is learning to kill...
FOOTNOTE: *The six: Baroncini of Solarolo, Ravenna; Biscardo of Calmasino, Verona; Cauda of Cuneo, Piedmont; Mascarello of La Morra, Piedmont; Ricordi of Piave, Treviso; Tombacco of Trebaseleghe, Padua...
...have teamed up with investment firms so they too can offer stock packages. More visibly, financial institutions are showering consumers with promotional giveaways and extending hours. Customers who open an IRA at North Carolina Federal Savings and Loan in Charlotte automatically enter a drawing for a free round-trip Piedmont Airlines ticket, which can be used on any of the routes the carrier flies, from Miami to San Francisco. New York City's Dollar Dry Dock Savings Bank is offering new IRA depositors an immediate cash bonus of up to $30. The First National Bank of Chicago...