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...wanted to become long-distance, interstate airlines; not one was approved. When competition was opened up in 1978, the fleet of new carriers generally employed relatively cheap nonunion labor and used smaller crews on their aircraft than established airlines did. Some upstarts, like People Express, championed pared-to-the-bone competition, in which low ticket prices took the place of almost all amenities...
...Festival, when an opposing player fell on him in the corner. Four days later, back in Cambridge, Dr. Arthur Boland operated on his knee. Pawloski tore the knee ligaments out of his femur--but because the ligaments themselves were undamaged, the operation entailed re-attaching the ligaments to the bone...
...their family's medical catastrophes. The scientific evidence may be statistical rather than empirical, but it is convincing. Lieut. Zumwalt seems inclined to take it as it comes. His childhood illnesses may have taught him valuable lessons about physical and psychological courage. He endures radiation, chemotherapy and painful bone-marrow transplants that slow but do not stop his cancers. Most of the news he gets from his doctors is bad. "I really had to work on myself mentally to avoid sadness and depressions, . . ." he writes. "I began to see my illness as a process of diminishing expectations and choices...
...this deftly edited collection of his dispatches, Pyle's view of what is now an ancient campaign returns as a haunting narrative. A column written from Tunisia in 1943 was titled "The God-Damned Infantry" -- rough language for those days -- and it told of an endless line of bone-tired foot soldiers slogging forward across rolling hills after four days of battle...
...espionage, Judge John Vukasin chose the closest thing: he sentenced Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker family espionage ring, to 365 years in prison. Whitworth will not be eligible for parole for 60 years, when he would be 107. "Jerry Whitworth," said Vukasin, "is a zero at the bone," a man who had betrayed his country for money because "he believes in nothing." Whitworth said only, "I'm very, very sorry...