Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second largest airline, is that its employees (not including flight attendants) happen to own the company, and the rising bitterness among its pilots and machinists threatens the entire premise of employee ownership. In 1994 United employees completed a purchase of 55% of the company. In exchange for their ownership stake, they made concessions totaling $4.8 billion. (Pilots as a group own 25% of the company.) They also gave up their right to strike. Yet United's pilots, embittered by what they feel was harsh and callous treatment of them by their management during labor talks, can in some sense create...
...Chinese people need to feel they have a stake in the country before they can connect to the government, MacFarquhar said. This change will "only come through political reform." Hui K. Kuok '00, who attended the forum, said the praise of Deng's economic changes to China may have been over-emphasized...
...Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things, and the most important lesson was "never quit"--even...
...Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things, and the most important lesson was "never quit"--even...
...have watched the company's stock fall from about $30 a share when it went public in April to $10.811/4 Friday. The company lost $88 million in the six months ending Oct. 31. H&R Block reportedly is trying to unload the remaining 80 percent of its stake in CompuServe. "Our goal remains a speedy and sustained turnaround at CompuServe, and under Bob's leadership the company has made progress in that direction," Salizzoni said in his statement. "The board of directors will work quickly to find a chief executive officer who will continue the process...