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...Eastern's workers fretted over last week's layoffs, they wore lapel buttons, distributed by the unions, that read: WE STAND TOGETHER. But that defiant-sounding message is printed on a peel-off sticker. If the new talks yield a settlement satisfactory to the workers, they plan to remove the stickers. The buttons would then show Eastern's familiar blue logo and a new message: WORKING TOGETHER. Rather than strike, the airline's employees want to keep on earning their wings every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earning Wings the Hard Way | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...been waiting perhaps twenty minutes before it was my turn to get a seating assignment. The man at the counter was just about to give me my little sticker when someone began beating the gate door with all his might...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Thanks for the Blues | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

Thanks to a harsher drinking policy recently instituted at Yale only Yalies 21 and older, who have a specially issued I.D. sticker can drink legally on campus. Even so, underage students say getting by the standard double I.D. requirement and obtaining alcohol is no problem...

Author: By Julia H. Day and Lea A. Saslav, S | Title: 10,000 Men of Harvard Want Alcohol Today | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...resorts, hard pressed by a chronic lack of water at high altitudes, want to pump treated sewage through their snowmaking equipment. So far Vermont's environmental conservation agency has not approved the innovation. The proposal has set off a battle between environmentalists and resort owners. One bumper sticker reads, KILLINGTON: WHERE THE AFFLUENT MEET THE EFFLUENT. Killington officials and local developers are not amused. C.E. ("Cowboy") Snodgrass, a Killington carpenter, says he was fired from his job at a condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vermont: Impure As the Driven Snow | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...THANKS FOR COMING, but there are no people. Windows are unbroken, and a few have curtains, neatly sashed back. There are some cars, a bird feeder made from a plastic Seven-Up bottle, a hammock tied from an elm to a sycamore, a riding mower with a Six Flags sticker on it, and FOR SALE signs all over the place. Pinned up on one front door is a printed passage from Psalms: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." But there are no people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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