Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Airline executives firmly deny that a debt-heavy buyout would affect their maintenance practices. "There sure as hell won't be any scrimping on maintenance here," says United's O'Gorman. "Our rule is that time and cost are not considerations when maintaining airlines." At Northwest, which paid a $650,000 fine to the FAA last month after a 1988 inspection turned up a list of maintenance problems, officials contend that the carrier has an ample cash flow to repay its debt without lowering its maintenance standards. Wall Street analysts tend to accept such views. Says Julius Maldutis, who follows...
...cooling the country's ethnic strife will take more than a few dismissals. How does Moscow satisfy the growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians? In Estonia, where Russians and other minorities comprise 40% of the 1.7 million population, the Russians complain that personal snubs abound. Alexander Yashugin, a decorated World War II veteran who lives in a suburb of Tallinn, said an Estonian shopkeeper refused to let him register to buy a TV set, and would not even put him on a waiting list. "On the front, they didn...
...discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found a way to calm the potentially explosive ethnic hostilities threatening to shake his rule...
Both the Trans America Athletic and the Southeastern Conferences will also experiment with the six-foul rule...
...rules will not be used in the NCAA tournament, and some coaches object to the six-foul rule because they would have to prepare their teams differently for the post-season than for regular-season play...