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...Sunday. In addition, the airline announced it will slash some fares up to 50 percent and double mileage points to lure back alienated customers. The strike is suspended, but not over. President Clinton ordered a 60 day "cooling-off" period at 12:04 EST, invoking the 1926 National Railway Labor Act, which governs relations for the airline industry. While American pilots are back in the cockpit, a three-member emergency board named by Clinton will take a month to propose a settlement. If the union and the airline's parent company AMR fail to reach an agreement on the proposal...
...Sunday. In addition, the airline announced it will slash some fares up to 50 percent and double mileage points to lure back alienated customers. The strike is suspended, but not over. President Clinton ordered a 60 day "cooling-off" period at 12:04 EST, invoking the 1926 National Railway Labor Act, which governs relations for the airline industry. While American pilots are back in the cockpit, a three-member emergency board named by Clinton will take a month to propose a settlement. If the union and the airline's parent company AMR fail to reach an agreement on the proposal...
Though the stakes are clear, the law (which was developed in the era of railway barons) is not. After deadlocking, the Federal Trade Commission in 1993 surrendered jurisdiction over Microsoft to the Justice Department. FTC Commissioner Christine Varney, an expert in the field, says it's hard to apply antitrust law in a fluid situation. "My concern is with the law's ability to keep pace with market conditions in fields that change so rapidly," she says. "Once it's clear a practice is anticompetitive, the issue may already be moot...
...children alive and cover her $12 monthly rent on a tin-roof shack in one of Nairobi's most fetid slums. Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative for her recurrent diarrhea or a dose of the latest herbal AIDS "cure." But even those she considers luxuries. "We are dying because we don't have medicines," she says. "I heard that there are new treatments. But I cannot...
...show is one episode of a seven-part BBC series titled "Great Railway Journeys," where other narrators ride trains through different parts of the world...