Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of that industry, renewed competition has boosted profits at the same time that it has cut fares. The major trucking companies are adamantly opposed to any change in rules that have kept competitors out and profits high, and they are staunchly supported by the 100,000 Teamsters who work for them. (The independents belong to no union.) Both the trucking companies and the Teamsters have a powerful ally in Howard Cannon, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, who has already traded barbs with Kennedy over deregulation. Cannon insists on extensive hearings and doubts that a bill will clear Congress...
...Iranian courts. For example, Brown & Root, the Texas-based construction company, whose $1.2 billion contract to build a naval base was canceled, has made little progress in persuading the Iranians to settle on termination damages. Fluor had completed 95% of a refinery near Isfahan before the revolution made further work too hazardous and is insisting upon back payments of nearly $100 million before it will finish the project...
...country's only remaining newspaper (owned by the Somoza family) and the government radio station for an "inflammatory media campaign" depicting the foreign press as "part of the vast Communist propaganda network." Wrote the correspondents: "This is a blatant lie. It foments hostility toward us and makes our work even more dangerous than it already...
Aviation mechanics with the airlines average $22,000, or half of an airline pilot's salary. Prospects for work in both fields are bright, partly because the last wave of World War II-trained men are approaching retirement. "Look around the airports," says Olson. "Most of the people working on planes are gray-haired." He is right: the average age of airplane mechanics is 57. Most E-RAU graduates get their first jobs in aviation working for charter operators and servicing business planes, rather than going direct to airlines...
...York chorus and orchestra, having failed to raise money for expenses, have had to cancel their planned performance of Handel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall. After a potluck supper, the singers and some of the instrumentalists squeeze into their conductor's dining room to perform the work for themselves and a few friends...