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...deal in question is a proposal by British Airways to spend $750 million to buy a 44% ownership of Pittsburgh-based USAir. The transatlantic partnership would rank as one of the three biggest airlines in the world, linking 339 destinations in 71 countries. That powerful combination has prompted a vigorous protest from the Big Three U.S. carriers -- American, United and Delta -- which hope to discourage the government from approving the deal. Said American chairman Robert Crandall: "What will happen is that the good jobs will go to London, and the baggage handlers will stay here...
...board. "First, Ford insisted that no decisions be made until they passed through the board's processes, which kept end runs to a minimum. Second, ((Treasury Secretary)) Bill Simon wasn't interested in running the day-to-day operation. He forcefully presented Treasury's view but never pulled rank. He was satisfied to be the Administration's public spokesman," a role Simon had codified in the presidential Executive Order creating the board...
...deal is the latest in a flurry of international partnerships being formed as the world's airlines shoot it out for passengers. By far the most controversial is USAir's plan to sell a 44% stake to British Airways for $750 million. The transatlantic combo would rank as one of the three biggest airlines in the world, linking 339 destinations in 71 countries. Most alarming to U.S. carriers, the arrangement would give British Airways, one of the world's strongest carriers, unlimited access to American markets. President- elect Bill Clinton and Ross Perot joined the chorus of alarm during...
This means that while the deans and thepresident will solicit gifts for the wholeUniversity, the graduate schools' rank-and-filefundraising personnel--the class officers, theexperienced development officials--will remaindedicated solely to their own school's financialsecurity...
...were the product of some modern Los Alamos. Bush visited the factory for a rally that resembled his trips to flag factories in the 1988 campaign. The Allies were invoked as they had been against the Axis. When victory came in Kuwait, Bush presumed that V-K day would rank with V-E day and V-J day, that America's international eminence was restored as at the peak of the nation's power...