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...turbulent and troubled city. Like Ronald Reagan, Koch is a master showman who finds that he can no longer dazzle his audience. His woes are such that when he was asked to lead a delegation this month to observe progress toward peace in Nicaragua, it offered a pleasant change from New York City...
Outside the Eastern Airlines compound that sits along the northeast perimeter of Miami International Airport, the temperature was a pleasant 75 degrees and palm trees swayed in a gentle breeze. But inside a first-floor conference room in Eastern's boxlike concrete-and-glass headquarters, the scene was stormy. Under the harsh glare of a battery of television lights, executives of the 60- year-old airline last week announced the layoff of more than 3,500 employees, or 9% of the work force, sparing only pilots and flight attendants. Said Luz Gomez, 26, a laid-off clerical worker...
BIRDS OF a feather flock together, to coin a phrase. To coin another, less quotable one, when inclement weather impends, birds fly south in search of sunshine and a more pleasant limb...
Melrose, the sophomore transfer from North Dakota, has been a pleasant surprise. Melrose did not play hockey at all last season, watching as the Fighting Sioux demolished most everyone in its path to the national championship...
Despite the dangers of the neighborhood and the lack of affection between them, Sammy and Rosie live pleasant, lower middle-class lives until Sammy's estranged father, Rafi (Shashi Kapoor) arrives. Once a high-ranking Indian politico, Rafi moves into Sammy and Rosie's apartment with the intention of giving them their substantial inheritance so that they can move into a real house and bless him with grandchildren...