Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike, which began March 4, has idled 8500 mechanics, bag handlers and ground crews at the nation's seventh largest airline...
...love came early, prompted by the sensations and surroundings of childhood. Visiting Shillington, Updike unexpectedly finds himself at loose ends for a couple of hours and wanders about through a soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood...
...long been able to claim the moral high ground in the campaign to stamp out chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. After all, America banned CFCs from spray cans more than a decade ago. And U.S. manufacturers are among the world's leaders in finding environmentally acceptable substitutes for CFCs, which are used as coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam...
...baggage handlers and other I.A.M. members was supported by thousands of Eastern pilots and flight attendants who refused to cross the picket lines. Determined to continue operating, Eastern said it had hired 1,100 accredited mechanics and 5,500 unskilled workers to fill in for baggage handlers and other ground-service workers. But without its pilots, Eastern was nearly paralyzed. In contrast to an average daily schedule of some 1,040 flights, on Saturday the airline managed to get only a few dozen jets into...
...only moderate amounts of protein. Americans should meet the Recommended Daily Allowance -- 0.8 g per kg of ideal body weight for adults -- but not exceed twice that level. Since an ounce of lean ground beef has about 8 g of protein, a 120-lb. woman fulfills her entire protein requirement with a 5.6- oz. hamburger, and a 180-lb. man with an 8.4-oz. patty...