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Stunned, angered and confused at first by Continental's unexpected shutdown, passengers by last week soon lined up ten deep at its ticket counters to grab "introductory" fares of $49 to fly anywhere nonstop on the airline's domestic system. At Terminal C of Houston's Intercontinental Airport, Bonnie Hash, 22, stood at the end of a line of 53 people, waiting to swap the return portion of a $425 round-trip ticket to Seattle for a $49 one. "It's inconvenient," said she, "but it's worth the wait." It is still not sure...
...effective job campaigns. Bethlehem was the first big firm to give white-and blue-collar employees the same kind of help. It maintains "career continuation centers" for displaced people in Johnstown and Bethlehem, Pa., and in Lackawanna, N. Y., near Buffalo, site of an 83-year-old plant whose shutdown was announced three days after Christmas...
...reactors. Much of the work involves upgrading the reactors to new federal safety standards passed after Three Mile Island, and simply replacing parts of older, worn-out reactors. Westinghouse, in fact, was sued by two California utilities last week over steam-generator breakdowns that have caused a 14-month shutdown of a 15-year-old nuclear plant near San Clemente...
...wonder that Colby College squad had little trouble getting for yesterday's game at Colby shutdown a red hot Crimson team, 421, by overcoming Harvard's talent advantage will emotional fire...
...minor plus. The image of the industry has been damaged because of the irresponsible actions of a very small body." Indeed, the protest may have set back the lobbying efforts of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Trucking Associations and other trucking organizations that opposed the strike. "This shutdown has only given truckers a black eye with the public," fumed Robert Jasmon, executive vice president of the Midwest Truckers Association, another independent group. "The real representatives of our industry must talk sense to Congress and get passed the kind of relief we need...