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Photographs released by NASA show a tongue of flame apparently lashing upward from the exhaust of the right booster rocket into an area that films of previous launches showed to be clear of fire or flame. The flame appeared in the last 15 seconds of flight...
More recently, labor costs grew too quickly. While Pan Am and United have withstood expensive strikes in order to win cost concessions from their workers, Eastern has kept flying by allowing salaries to spiral upward. Since 1979, in fact, pay for the carrier's employees has risen by 50% or more. One result: Eastern's pilots make an average of $112,535, while their counterparts at People Express are paid...
...raced upward through the ranks, never remaining in one job for more than two years. Then, in 1980, at the age of 41, Samuel Armacost was named chief executive of BankAmerica. "My first inclination was to jump and scream," he later recalled. No wonder: Armacost was about to begin managing the world's largest and most profitable financial firm...
...alarm fire broke out in the second-floor office of a Washington public relations firm, spreading upward through the five-story building and causing $500,000 worth of damage. Arab Americans quickly pointed to a disturbing coincidence: two floors above, the offices of the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee were also badly damaged, the latest in a series of violent actions affecting the organization. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the blaze. Commented one bureau spokesman: "Given the other attacks against the ADC and related Arab Americans, we are very concerned that it might have...
...first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, assumed cult status within months of publication. Its second-person narrative, cast of cocaine- fueled yuppies and New York City nightclub scenes had an odd, ironic charm that made some 138,000 buyers eager for his next tale. This time the protagonist has upward immobility but no interest in drugs. In fact, Christopher Ransom, an American drifter in Kyoto, has only one enthusiasm: karate. He hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend who ODed...