Word: twa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 19 the capacitors were flown from Los Angeles to London aboard a TWA aircraft and stored in a warehouse. (By some accounts, British officials substituted fake devices for the actual capacitors.) Nine days later, as the large wooden crate containing the cargo was about to be loaded onto an Iraqi Airways flight bound for Baghdad, U.S. and British customs officials seized the goods...
...nearly 19 million new jobs created during the booming '80s were in nonorganized service industries and small businesses. Relentless churning in the job market has also hurt Big Labor, as job security has begun to take precedence over concerns about benefits and pay increases. During the '80s, TWA, Phelps Dodge, Boise Cascade, International Paper and countless other firms cracked down hard on labor, imposing pay cuts, scaling back benefits and lengthening the workday, daring unions to oppose them. In many cases, labor yielded or lost...
...charged fees as high as $3.5 million. Backed by Milken, Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens attacked Gulf Oil in 1984, forcing the energy giant to merge with Chevron and earning nearly $400 million from his seven-month raid. Later Milken bankrolled Carl Icahn in a $1.2 billion takeover of TWA. Supported by Drexel's bonds, the little-known firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts became America's buyout king, acquiring 35 companies for more than $60 billion since...