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Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
...reason, investigators say, may have been a quarrel Bramlet was having with the Mob over the use-and presumably abuse-of a portion of the culinary local's $42 million pension fund. Some $16 million of the fund has already been loaned out to resorts and developments that are backed by Las Vegas gambling bosses...
Instead of helping these women remove the causes of their "boredom and loneliness at home," as Cardozo believes could (and can still) be done, feminists told them to leave home and become absentee mothers, just like their absentee husbands. Says she: "Their only quarrel with the success ethic was that it excluded women." The delusion that the mass of men chained to jobs are free or fulfilled (that kind of fulfillment is only sporadically true even for a handful of trained professionals and craftsmen) was never examined. "Men no longer have jobs; jobs have men," says Cardozo. "Now, jobs have...
...Bing? One of Cowan's particular dislikes was Norman Bing, traffic manager at the Neptune World Wide Moving Co. Bing, who is Jewish, had suspended Cowan, a $6.11-an-hour helper, for refusing to move a refrigerator. "What would you think," Cowan said to a companion after one quarrel, "if I went into the office with my guns on, looking for Norman Bing...
...causes marital strife, or vice versa, the combination often leads to a sequence well known to bill collectors and lawyers: debt defaults, followed by divorce, followed by bankruptcy. Oddly, say credit people, it rarely works the other way around; if a debt-ridden couple can patch up the marital quarrel, they usually can work out a way to clear up bills and return to solvency too. In other words, the family that pays together, stays together...