Word: union
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...testimony from industry experts on the ways in which various regulatory steps and changes to aircraft have greatly improved passenger survivability in airplane crashes. In testimony to members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Candace Kolander, air-safety coordinator for the Association of Flight Attendants, a flight-attendant union that has long pushed for improvements to onboard safety, listed three main successes that are proving to save lives. (Read "How to Survive a Plane Crash...
...Yikes!" - when asked how he felt about delivering the Democratic response to George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union, New York Times...
...second term, when the state suffered from a $2.5 billion deficit and one of the highest unemployment rates in the land, Locke declined to raise taxes, angering fellow Democrats. He also turned his back on promises to reform education, eliminating teacher raises and angering their union, who effectively "un-endorsed" him. Thousands of teachers later marched on the state capitol...
...Some were really racist, saying things like, 'Why don't you and your family get on a boat and go back to China.'" - Washington State Senator Ken Jacobsen, on the threatening emails Locke received after giving the 2003 Democratic response to President George W. Bush's State of the Union, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July...
...Science is simple. It tests hypotheses, observes the results, and then creates new hypotheses and theories. A scientific economist would clearly see the results of implementing Professor Mankiw’s theories. They failed, just as the economic theories of Karl Marx failed. The Soviet Union imploded under Marx’s economic policies, and our country nearly imploded in 1939 and 2008 as a result of conservative economic policies...