Word: slowdown
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Logan International Airport reported little interruption in scheduled ???? today as all Boston air traffic control ???? reported for work, despite a slowdown which has crippled airline serv??? in other major cities...
...York, Washington, and Cleve ? and were hit hardest by the slowdown, and several airlines cancelled flights from Boston to those cities...
...Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) has refused to reveal how ?xtensive the slowdown will become, and so for the next few days, airline service in Boston will be open to disruption...
...slowdown has been noticed least at Los Angeles' Northrop Corp., which is farther ahead than any of its competitors in diversifying. Northrop's current contracts range from building a telecommunications network for Iran, to making fuselages for the Boeing 747, to work on the P530 tactical fighter. In the six months from August to January, Northrop boosted sales by 16% over a similar period...
Cape Kennedy has suffered the most from the slowdown in the space program. Employment has dropped from 24,000 a year ago to 17,500 today, and "pink-slip psychology" lends a frantic tone to Friday night parties at the local Hilton. Houses that sold for $25,000 a year ago now bring $1,500 less. Space contractors organized an employment service and invited more than 100 organizations-life insurance companies, boat builders, even the CIA-to interview laid-off employees. They found 600 jobs for 2,000 men. One $15,000-a-year engineer wound up packing groceries...