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...pilots gave until it hurt then," he says, "and the executives made a jillion dollars when Northwest got healthier. Now it's doing very well, and the labor contracts are up, and the pilots want their pound of flesh." To Northwest, says Saporito, the pilots are "overpaid prima donnas who already got their fair share." Clearly, there are no white hats in this one -- just a lot of native South Dakotans with no way to get home for Labor Day (OK, several native South Dakotans). "Northwest's regional monopoly may force Clinton to intervene," says Saporito. Until then, the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of the Northwest Pilots | 9/2/1998 | See Source »

...pumped $9 trillion into investment portfolios and encouraged Americans to spend some of their gains--a trend that has helped sustain prosperity. But the "wealth effect"--the term economists use for the urge to splurge when we feel rich but to pull back when we feel poorer--could pound the economy if we see more days like last Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 299 points. It was the Dow's third-largest single-day fall, though in percentage terms it was not among the 100 biggest drops. "People feel they've got so much money [in stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Bear To Keep Buying? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...course the 400-pound Jones's sad-sacking couldn't have anything to do with his habit of signing papers "Adolf Hitler" and "Snow White" -- and why penalize him for the age-old Nebraska legal tradition of setting bonds of "a gazillion pengos," as he is accused of doing? Throw in his misunderstood indoor Grucci impersonation along with allegations of swearing routinely at court staff and making improper physical contact with a female judge, and you've got the makings of a high-tech lynching, as another wise man once said. Jones's suit says he was discriminated against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weight of the Evidence | 7/29/1998 | See Source »

...empty as the great wave rolls in. Out in the deep it was no more than a foot high, swift and imperceptible; now, forced into standing straight by the ascending slope of the ocean floor, it is 20 feet. Or a hundred. And it will pound down on places the gentle tides have never touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under a Wall of Water | 7/23/1998 | See Source »

...Kinkels weren't divorced, nor were the Carneals, but both Kip and Michael may have resented their accomplished and popular older sisters. Kristin Kinkel wasn't just a pretty cheerleader--she was the 100-pound spitfire who got tossed into the air to delight crowds at Hawaii Pacific University, which gave her a scholarship. Kelly Carneal graduated from Heath High just last month--only six months after her brother apparently killed three girls in the school's prayer group--as Heath's valedictorian. After the shooting, Michael told a psychiatrist that everyone talked about his sister, not about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Arms and The Boy | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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