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...Supreme Court Saturday negated a lower court's ruling that King's takeover of the Massachusetts Bay Transity Authority (MBTA) was illegal, and thus averted the latest shutdown threat. The ruling would have gone into effect yesterday...
While the high court temporarily paved the way for continued mass transit service, a shutdown later this month is still possible. The key issue--whether the governor's emergency powers permit him to spend state money without a legal appropriation--remains unresolved...
...generous boosts in wages and benefits-if they would agree to gradual implementation of laborsaving technology, a new, fast-acting disputes procedure and a guarantee of uninterrupted production. When some unions balked at the compromise, Thomson suspended publication of both papers for eleven months during 1978 and 1979, a shutdown that cost the company some $82 million in pretax losses. A strike this year by the daily Times's journalists, their first ever, cost a further $ 1.4 million and is expected to bring 1980 pretax losses to $36 million. Meanwhile, rival Associated Newspapers Ltd. is blaming high production costs...
...from Ithaca, University officials chartered "every bus we could get our hands on" to provide students with transportation. Greyhound Bus Lines Co. and U.S. Air established ticketing arrangements for students. The University also provided lodging for students from foreign countries and students who could not get home during the shutdown, said David Drink-water, dean of students...
...their contracts on Sept. 30, and many of them doubtless will sign with other companies. "You could get a domino situation," says Baritone Sherrill Milnes. "The famous tend to bump the less famous, all down the line." After another dispute with the orchestra that led to a three-month shutdown in 1969, the Met did start up in midseason. But its performances suffered because many leading singers had already signed elsewhere. This time, says the Met, there will be a good season, or none...