Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Service With a Smile: Hoosier hospitality started long before the Crimson took to the soccer field. The team was met at Indianapolis International Airport by a pair of female IU undergrads--dressed in bright red blazers adorned with Indiana pins--whose jobs as athletic "support staff" include the task of picking up visiting teams at the airport...
...Zawicki, a street sultana taking her ease beneath the lavender awning of Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel, a giant grape Popsicle of a building at the midpoint of the world's most famous boardwalk. By her right side is a pair of stuffed raccoons; by her left, an airport luggage cart that holds her worldly possessions. Frank Sinatra croons to her from inside a boom box, and she accompanies him from time to time on a kazoo. "I like it here," she says. "It's better than Philadelphia, that's for sure. You can't make no money there...
...strained the ranks of the 50,000 licensed airline mechanics. Carriers are eager to pay wages that range from about $13.50 an hour for newcomers to $20.50 for journeymen. Says Richard Delaney, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local at Chicago's O'Hare Airport: "The aging fleets take a lot more maintenance work. You need more people. We are growing, but not at a rate that's going to satisfy demand...
...Europe and Asia, some aviation experts have been critical of U.S. aviation practices. Japan's Ministry of Transport complained last month that mechanical problems had forced too many Northwest flights to return to Tokyo's Narita airport after takeoff, allegedly increasing congestion at the crowded facility. Last May a group of European airlines refused to take delivery of Boeing's new 747-400 jetliners until the company agreed to reinforce the cabin floors...
...owns a sizable chunk of the city, conveniently popped up on her first visit. Painton had booked a flight aboard the Trump Air helicopter service, only to discover the tycoon himself was a passenger. Trump pointed out the town's attractions and even gave her a ride from the airport in his limousine. On other visits, Painton traveled less grandly aboard the buses that carry many of the millions of gamblers who constitute Atlantic City's primary source of income...