Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ongoing labor negotiations, in which its nearly 30,000 employees are being asked to take about a 15% pay cut. Without the profits from other Trans World subsidiaries, TWA's management and the unions will be under much stronger pressure to reduce costs. TWA hopes the spin-off will help it avoid following Braniff International and Continental Air Lines into bankruptcy...
...increases to reduce budget deficits. "I don't like to say it in the middle of a political campaign, but it's a fact," he says. "We've got to face up to it." Mondale speaks of raising taxes too, but with a very different political spin: he says the rich were unduly favored by Reagan's tax cuts, and pledges to make them pay their "fair share...
...stage is thrust up from the floor and split into two unequal planes. Enter eleven dancers clad in black, red or white pajamas, their costumes slit wide to flash inner forearms and thighs. Slowly they start to spin, hop and shuffle in smooth synchronicity. Out of huge loudspeakers suspended from the ceiling comes the foghorn blast of a low note-like the opening of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra-played by a synthesizer; later the music rises in a blast of brass to a Brucknerian apotheosis...
...ride. They riddled the plane with machine-gun bullets, but the lawyer succeeded in landing. By the time he did, bombs were thudding all around the city. The first reported casualty was Robert Tyce, operator of a civilian airport near Honolulu, who was machine-gunned as he started to spin the propeller of a plane...
Thus ended the strange saga of Andrei Berezhkov, the 16-year-old son of a Soviet diplomat, whose brief disappearance for a nocturnal spin in his family's car had escalated from a police-blotter item to a diplomatic showdown between the superpowers. The reason: though he returned home under his own power ten hours later, both President Reagan and the New York Times had that day received letters, purportedly from him, requesting asylum. Kept hidden away by the Soviets for more than a week while they and U.S. officials sparred over how to handle the matter, Andrei finally...