Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle. As the strike strangled airline operations, 9,500 nonunion secretaries, ticket agents and other workers were laid off. Aside from making a handful of flights between Miami and Latin American cities, the airline concentrated its efforts on keeping the Northeast shuttle flying so that the cash-rich deal with Trump would not fall through. To attract passengers, Eastern offered a temporary fare of $12 for weekend shuttle flights from New York to Washington or Boston, a fraction of its usual rate of $69. The tactic worked: the first flights sold well...
...probing such sensitive spots too deeply, Bernstein may be doing the reader a favor. As it is, the book fairly crackles with emotional intensity and unsettling historical questions. With his rich depiction of his parents and pungent evocation of the period, Bernstein has been able to explore his controversial issues with the finesse of a jazz musician bouncing around themes that might otherwise be too hot to handle...
...record, has fulfilled not one daily quota but five. His wages ought to be raised by a factor of five, but instead, there is an immediate tendency to pay him not five times as much money but three times -- "There, so much for your wanting to get rich...
...thing is certain: the genie cannot be put back into the bottle. Like atomic energy, genetic engineering is an irresistible force that will not be wished or legislated away. The task ahead is to channel that force into directions that save lives but preserve humanity's rich genetic heritage...
Loyalties is a candid, powerful memoir of his struggle to understand his ex- Communist parents. -- Nobel laureate William Golding winds up his seafaring trilogy. -- A rich tale of the I.R.A...