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...people of Seattle have some of the best-educated cab drivers in the world, they owe it all to the Boeing Co. During the past two years, caught by the worst downturn in U.S. airline history (estimated 1982 industry losses: $500 million), the giant plane builder has reduced its work force by 14,000 as its production of new commercial aircraft dropped to half of its capacity. But now, thanks to some sharp maneuvering, Boeing's prospects are looking brighter. In the past six months, the company's stock has shot up from...
...reduced capacity: during the first nine months of 1982, the company earned $201 million, half of it from commercial aircraft. Says Wilson: "We've battened down the goddam hatches, and we are going to survive." Before long, he may even be hiring back some of those overeducated cab drivers...
...then offered to leave the money order to leave his identification, to leave his watch with the attendant, if only he'd fill up the live, enabling him to go to the bank and return with the 50cents the attendant refused. So he had to catch a cab to his bank in Harvard Square to get money from the automatic teller to redeem his car. But the automatic teller was inoperative, instructing him to proceed to the branch in Central Square However his cab driver, despite his knowledge of the whole situation, refused to take him to Central Square, finally...
Still, there are psychological rewards. Total strangers who see Maciej driving his cab come up to him and congratulate him for not collaborating with the regime. Former colleagues who have stayed in journalism try to excuse themselves by saying that they are working to change the system from within. "It is really rather pathetic," says Ewa, "because in the next breath they add that they have to do it to support their families." Nonetheless, Maciej and Ewa stress that neither of them feels morally superior because of the choice they have made...
According to testimony at the hearing, the engineer and the brakeman of the train were both drinking just before, and possibly during, the brief run from Baton Rouge to the site of the wreck. Moreover, Janet Byrd, a clerk employed by the railroad, not only was in the cab of the engine at the time of the derailment but was at the controls because the engineer had dozed off. The hearing also revealed that both Engineer Edward Robertson and Brakeman Russell Reeves had been suspended several times by the railroad-Robertson for a variety of operational errors, including speed violations...