Word: waging
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...mellow guy, Linklater moves his cycle very fast. In 2003, he skipped out of casting sessions for a comedy pilot about low-wage workers he was making for HBO for a few weeks. He came back with Before Sunset--many critics' best film of 2004. He has made six movies in the past five years, plus that unaired pilot and three anti-Bush ads for MoveOn.org Sure, he seems like Small Budget Indie Guy, wearing shorts and making phone calls to set up a little shoot at a bookstore for a 12-year-long project he's hoping to turn...
...Although I went to public school, and my friends tended to come from working-class families, and although I worked minimum-wage jobs when I was in high school, it would be complete fabrication to say that I didn't grow up with tremendous means and a huge house. So we were different in that sense-very different. I've had a lot of advantages along the way, that is certainly true, like anybody else in this country whose family is in that top one percent...
...unions. Now it appears that Eastern's workers may be maneuvering to foil the deal. Union representatives have been meeting with Jay Pritzker, a Chicago financier who controls Braniff Airlines and the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker is said to be considering a bid for Eastern in return for wage concessions from the workers. Texas Air controls 51% of Eastern stock, but Pritzker could conceivably make Lorenzo a lucrative offer that he could not refuse...
...lack of a formal labor contract at USX may be one reason why corporate buccaneers, sensing the potential for wage cuts and an eventual increase in corporate earnings, soon began to sniff around. Another attraction for raiders is a USX pension fund with an estimated $2.5 billion in excess assets. Last month the company's stock began moving into some well-known hands. Among the buyers: Robert Holmes à Court, an Australian investor; T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman-raider; Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis entrepreneur and speculator. Pickens reportedly cashed in his chips two weeks ago for a big profit...
Flying Tigers, an air-cargo carrier founded by World War II fighter pilots and ground crewmen in 1945, may be waging its last competitive battle. The world's largest cargo line (1985 revenues: $1.1 billion) may fold unless the labor unions that represent 2,790 of its 6,334 employees grant major wage and benefit concessions. Since 1983 the Los Angeles-based carrier has lost $95 million in price wars with competitors like Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines...