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Memories - with their power to seduce, to reinvent, to torment - are what fuel A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernières's quiet yet moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale of love and loss in which the protagonists embody the profound but fragile relationships strangers can build and the pain of intimacy corrupted. "A previous draft was about sexual obsession, and it left a rather bad taste in the mouth," says De Bernières, who grew up in Surrey...
...profile labor mediators convinced the union to call off the strike, even without a contract, in time for the 4 p.m. shift to go straight to work. It took all night to get the hulking transit system back online safely, so Gotham faced one last strikebound slog home Thursday evening. During the late evening, scores of weary walkers rushed down subway stairs at a couple of stations at the rumble of subway trains emanating from the tracks only to be told by police that the cars were only being moved to prepare for the return to work. By early this...
...organized labor, the strike at the third largest U.S. metropolitan daily quickly became a cause celebre. More than 10,000 municipal workers and other sympathizers joined strikers in a rally outside News headquarters. Inside, the strikebound paper's editors were frantically offering jobs to reporters at other publications and trying to woo back wavering staffers to help put out the News. "My boss was on the phone again this afternoon pleading with me to come back," said a striking reporter. "It was an incredibly hard sell. He said, 'You still have your job, but we can't promise that...
When Frank Lorenzo flew Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy court last year, he vowed to bring the carrier out stronger than ever. But strikebound Eastern has lost $1.2 billion since then, and Lorenzo has proved unable to reach an agreement with Eastern's creditors. To break the deadlock, a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Manhattan last week named airline-industry veteran Martin Shugrue to serve as trustee for the troubled Eastern. While Lorenzo's Texas Air company will continue to own Eastern, Lorenzo will have no say in the airline's management during the bankruptcy proceedings. Shugrue, 49, who will...
...deal collapsed as if it had been hit by wind shear. Just five days after announcing his $464 million takeover of strikebound and bankrupt Eastern Air Lines, former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth abruptly delivered a very different message last week. Said he: "Our agreement with Texas Air is terminated, it's finished, it's over...