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...lavish settlement will weaken the carrier's already fragile finances. In the past three years, Eastern, which hauls more passengers than any other U.S. airline, has lost $158 million and run up a long-term debt of $1.9 billion in an aggressive program to expand and modernize its fleet. Voicing "grave concern" at the cost of the pact, Chairman Frank Borman fretted: "Ordinarily, an event of this nature is cause for satisfaction and relief on the part of both parties. Unfortunately, such is not the case in this agreement...
...point, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker drew Kasten into his office for a scolding. Kasten began to weaken, but said he would have to talk strategy with Jesse Helms, the ultraconservative North Carolina Republican. There were Senators who suspected Helms was aiding Kasten just as the fox helped the gingerbread man, i.e., Helms was really out to kill the jobs bill. President Reagan had vowed to veto the bill if the rider reached his desk as part...
...extreme and unreal stereotypes which were the focus of Monday's article focus on differences in approach and serve to divide and weaken the women's community at Harvard...
More than 50 freshmen participated in a workshop given his weaken to encourage academic and extracurricular achievement among minority students...
DIED. Robert J. Kutak, 50, exuberant Omaha lawyer and indefatigable leader for the past five years of the campaign to reform the legal profession's code of ethics; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis. After a storm of protests over his proposals to weaken the bonds of client-attorney confidentiality, he watered down the new provisions, but his reformed code still faces an uphill fight at the American Bar Association's semiannual meeting this month...