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...back at barely half their former wages. Senior Continental pilots who used to average $83,000 a year could return, but at salaries of $43,000. Flight attendants who had worked their way up to $35,700 were cut back to $15,000. Senior mechanics saw their wages shrink from $33,280 to $20,800. Lorenzo also reduced his own salary from $267,000 to that of a senior captain...
...Fifer, 1866, Zola remarked that Manet did not shrink from "the abruptness of nature": "His whole being bids him to see in patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending...
...Pentagon still gives high marks to Reagan. The Joint Chiefs like his uncomplicated, almost uncritical enthusiasm for military power. Unless one of Reagan's far-flung operations backfires badly, aides say he is not likely to shrink from the dispatch of U.S. military might for a show of force whenever he deems it useful...
...simply won't get any change in the dollar until the budget process is brought under control," argues Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust. The deficit for the coming year is now estimated at $180 billion or so, but it may have to shrink a lot more before any Government intervention will stop the U.S. from serving as a magnet for cash from around the world...
...Japanese attitude is quite different from what AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and other advocates of a U.S. industrial policy suggest when they call for government aid to smokestack America. While Kirkland and his allies seek to strengthen ailing industries, MITI'S goal is to shrink them slowly but steadily so that resources can be shifted to more promising fields...