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But the bigger airlines slowly fought back. United, American, Piedmont and others have set up two-tier hiring, with lower pay scales for new employees. On some planes, the three-person flight crews of yore have been reduced to two. Established airlines have been able to offer frequent-flyer programs...
Above all, discipline may be the crucial element in the success of That's Life! There is always a strong temptation in pictures of this ilk to provide the stars with thumping self-recognition scenes. But if the scales finally fall from Harvey's eyes, they do not clang loudly...
Margaret Bourke-White's position behind her camera attracted attention that often rivaled the interest commanded by her subjects. She made headlines almost from the moment her career took off: THIS DARING CAMERA GIRL SCALES SKYSCRAPERS FOR ART. In the early 1940s, Hollywood issued a number of films based roughly...
Gwinn said that before the group's pioneering work scientists had not formally determined the distance which separated celestial bodies. He called the scientific community's conception of the Milky Way "maps without inch-to-mile scales."
Clarence Pendleton is hardly the first chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to cause controversy, but he is the first to do so by attacking the civil rights programs. In 1984 Pendleton ridiculed comparable worth--the effort to equate pay scales in different jobs--as "the looniest idea since...