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...tight market, pilots searching for higher pay often jump from the smaller to the larger airlines and from one type of aircraft to another. Crews have less time to learn to work together. Caught at the bottom of this turnover spiral are the commuter airlines. Henson Airlines, based in Salisbury, Md., for example, lost 54 of its 195 pilots...
Just like students and spiral notebooks, computer owners will always need disks ($1-$3 each). Once again, before buying a set, make sure they are compatible with the computer in question. It's important to confirm with a salesman that certain disks will work with a specific computer...
...danger of a stock-market slide after the announcement of the action against Boesky. If that happened, Boesky would have been forced because of margin debts on his stock accounts to liquidate huge amounts of securities quickly. That could have sent the market into a steeper downward spiral. The SEC apparently decided it would be better for Boesky to dispose of some of his portfolio in advance...
...more difficult to obtain. The heyday of the U.S. middle class, and its high expectations, came in the 1950s and 1960s, when the median U.S. family income -- adjusted to today's price levels -- leaped from $14,832 in 1950 to $27,338 in 1970 (see chart). But the prosperity spiral was halted by the inflation of the 1970s, which carried prices aloft more rapidly than wages and thus caused real income levels to stagnate for more than a decade. Last year's median was only $27,735, barely an improvement from...
...support groups are emerging to counter that spiral. In the New York City area, Continence Restored arranges lectures and meetings. HIP (Help for Incontinent People), based in Union, S.C., issues newsletters and audiocassettes; HIP's mention last month in "Dear Abby" drew 90,000 inquiries. The Simon Foundation, beyond offering a newsletter, an 800 phone number and seminars, has put out a book titled Managing Incontinence and a touching, enlightening videocassette called The Solution Starts with...