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...reported to work because he had a long-range flight that night," says John Findlay, the union representative, "and his access card to the building didn't work." Another pilot on a layover in Los Angeles got the bad news on a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "They just started picking selected people," Findlay says, "so that when the word goes around to other pilots, it would instill fear in them." (Among pilots, a rumor is spreading of a second list of 118 names.) The pilots call Cathay's tactics union busting. Hong Kong's wary travelers call it just...
...deaths of two members of an American missionary family [in a small plane shot down by the Peruvian military, which thought the plane was involved in drug smuggling] should serve as a wake-up call [NATION, May 7]. With innocent missionaries being killed, Colombia torn apart by prohibition-fueled violence and America's prison population at record levels, perhaps it's time for politicians to drop the drug-war hysteria. As a Christian, I feel I should ask myself, What would Jesus do? The answer is not to persecute, incarcerate and deny forgiveness to drug users--the essence of America...
Jody Steinauer founded MSFC after she and fellow med students at the University of California, San Francisco were mailed a slightly threatening booklet from an anti-abortion group. Weeks later, Dr. David Gunn, a Florida abortion provider, was shot outside his clinic. "It was a wake-up call," she says. At medical conventions that summer Steinauer set up exhibits for the new group and was swarmed by students...
...said the hacking should serve as a wake-up call for the University...
...Disney and Oprah Winfrey Presents franchises, which have been among the few new network movies to score big ratings. "The old form of movie-of-the-week isn't appealing to audiences anymore," says ABC executive vice president Susan Lyne. "The quality of cable movies has been a wake-up call." Anderson says network "cable envy" helped give her free rein--within language and time limits--to create Billie in her own style...