Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near misses were a common occurrence." The FAA reacted by firing some 100 local PATCO leaders and temporarily suspending most of the sickout participants. Still, the FAA seemed to get the controllers' point; automated radar gear was gradually installed at major centers. To regain certification as a bargaining unit, PATCO in 1971 formally pledged never again to encourage a work stoppage or engage in a strike. At the time, only about 3,000 controllers remained in the union...
...smart, tough, successful and full of pride. He is, in his early 30s, a member of a New York police elite. The Special Investigating Unit has amassed an impressive record of convictions in major crimes-drug busts, police and other governmental corruption. He is, in the words of an admiring judge, one of the city's princes...
Well-scrubbed, pep-filled, and pom-pommed, the cheerleading unit debuted early in the football season. They cried...
...cathedral, dressed appropriately in morning clothes, and the bride and bridegroom had a detective disguised as a footman riding their coach (not to mention the 400 plainclothesmen mingling with the onlookers). A team of top surgeons and a supply of blood plasma were waiting in a special emergency unit at a nearby hospital...
...inevitable vexations of the writing trade. They may be annoying, but they are not enough to turn off the current of this newest electronic revolution. Even the biggest drawback to processors, their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will win. As Cerf concludes, "I have seen the future, and it glows." -By J.D. Reed. Reported...