Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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United, which netted $258.9 million last year, has recently flown into its own patches of turbulence. The airline last week reported a $3.2 million < first-quarter loss, largely because of airfare wars. In addition, its 4,900 pilots, angered by the company's plan to adopt a two-tier wage scale that would lower the pay of new flight officers, voted to strike just after midnight...
Philip M. Heilbron, a B.C. senior who made "a little bit of money" in the pyramid schemes, said the schemes investors make profits by capitalizing on an ever-increasing participation. He said that a student starts the scheme by attracting eight investors to form at three-tier pyramid, while the student at the top collects $100 from each of those beneath him. The eight then form pyramids under themselves, he said...
...control future expenditures, the company wants a two-tier wage scale of the sort that is becoming an industry standard, under which new employees would be paid less than present workers. In addition, Pan Am wants the right to hire more foreign nationals for overseas flights. The unions see these & measures as a threat to job security for U.S.-based workers. Said Mary Annis Moore, a representative of the Independent Union of Flight Attendants: "What Pan Am is doing is anti-American...
After a couple of excellent opportunities, freshman Don Sweeney connected on the game-tier from the blue-line...
...Engineers would have to sweep tier five remaining regular season league games, and would have to win four ECAC playoff games to tie the league's consecutive victory streak set by the 1969-70 Cornell team that went...