Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...establish an emergency board to examine the dispute, a move that would ! have delayed the strike an additional 60 days. The mediators pointed out the potential widespread impact of the strike, since the AFL-CIO has threatened to disrupt rail, bus and airline transportation across the U.S. in support of the I.A.M...
Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...
...gesture fell flat. Under the pact, the pilots, who have given up $164.5 million in wages since 1986, were asked for an additional $64 million a year in concessions. The pilots rejected the contract and threw their support to the I.A.M. members, asserting that the airline's fleet could not be safely maintained during a mechanics' walkout. Said John Bavis, head of Eastern's pilots' union: "What's Lorenzo going to do with 225 airplanes? Take them down to the local Jiffy Lube...
...play politics with the best of them. With Uncle Carl's help, Nunn visited Washington and was able to tell Georgians that if he was elected he would be put on the Armed Services Committee. I have "assurances," he said cryptically. By primary day, Nunn had the support of both arch-conservative Lester Maddox and black activist Julian Bond. After defeating Carter's man -- a Harvard-educated lawyer whom Nunn chided for being "too used to air-conditioned rooms in Eastern Ivy League schools" -- Nunn faced a conservative Republican in the general. The great coup, the stroke that many...
Despite commendable work on race relations and the support of black liberals like Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, statements like these -- and a generally conservative voting record -- could cripple Nunn if he seeks the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination. He considered running last year but pulled back primarily because his two children were still in school. "They'll have graduated by '92," says Bill Jerles, a Perry dentist and close friend. "Sam has those presidential thoughts in mind all the time...