Word: piedmonte
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...guess things really started going wrong at LaGuardia. As soon as I had fought my way off of the plane, I asked my "customer service agent" for directions to the Piedmont terminal for my connection to Roanoke. Fifteen minutes later, standing in front of the female employee's bathroom, I decided I should try to find...
...this is Piedmont...
...tier salary agreements are becoming widespread in U.S. labor contracts. Among airlines, the plan is now used at American, Frontier and Piedmont. Those airlines complained that because they paid much higher salaries, they could not compete against new, low-overhead airlines like People Express. In 1983, labor costs represented 37.5% of American's operating expenses, as compared with 20% for People Express...
...begins with a loving re-creation of the small Jewish community in the northwest Italian region of Piedmont, where he was born in 1919. His ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities...
...gather evidence of damage, the U.S. Forest Service each decade resurveys thousands of one-acre plots, checking the diameter and height of trees and looking for portents of new growth. The ongoing survey of Southern Piedmont woodlands shows that in the past ten years the growth rate of loblolly pine, a coniferous evergreen, has been 25% less than expected. Botanist Vogelmann's 20-year study of Camels Hump has shown a rapid decline in nine species of trees on the 4,083-ft. peak. The biomass (the combined weight of tree trunk, branches and foliage) has dropped sharply...