Word: slowdowns
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...share of the comeback? Their discontent seemed ready to boil over last week, even as striking flight attendants returned in triumph to their jobs at American Airlines. No sooner had American resumed its normal flight schedule than pilots and mechanics at United Airlines began a slowdown to protest the prospect of thousands of new layoffs. In Los Angeles more than 150 police officers scheduled for the morning shift called in sick to pressure the city into negotiating a new contract to replace one that expired 17 months ago. And in Illinois Caterpillar workers staged slowdowns at plants in six locations...
...believe you me, there's no slowdown offense going on out there. Just near-desperation at getting the rock to fall...
...lost nearly $170,000, according to its tax returns. Company officials say the number does not include all the profits earned at Let's Go--which was spun off at the start of fiscal 1993 and stopped filing joint returns with HSA--and reflects a national and regional economic slowdown...
...soft economy has often been used by banks as an excuse for the slowdown in extending credit. Yet evidence abounds that banks are still gun-shy about lending to business. And no wonder. More than $125 billion in failed loans to real estate buyers, developing countries, farmers and the energy industry have had to be written off in the past five years...
...ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they already have an ailment that is expensive to treat, perhaps kidney disease or multiple sclerosis). And for everybody -- patients, taxpayers, state officials, business executives -- the reforms promise, eventually at least, a slowdown in the relentless rise of medical costs that keeps kiting up insurance premiums and patients' bills and biting into state budgets and company profits...