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With new recruits coming so slowly out of the classrooms, many controllers working in the towers complain that their hours and work load are too strenuous. At the nation's 22 busiest airports, some controllers may work as much as ten hours a day, six days a week. They contend that many of the 500 military controllers brought into the towers to help out after the strike were not qualified to handle heavy commercial traffic; others complain about the inexperience of controllers transferred from smaller airports to major ones. "We're getting them from places like Charleston...
...work load is tough, and a lot of us are a little tired these days," says a controller at the Aurora Air Traffic Control Center, which clears all planes coming into O'Hare. "But nobody I know has cut a corner, and nobody is too tired to do his job properly." Indeed, FAA officials contend that PATCO diehards, still furious at losing their union status, are intentionally stirring up talk of trouble in the control towers. Obviously, the nation's airports cannot be run indefinitely under present conditions, and the FAA hopes to bring the force of controllers...
Most analysts, though, had expected Braniff to last at least through the summer so that it could grab vacationing passengers with cut-rate fares. But the airline could not wait for the summer traffic. Passenger load factor, a measure of how much money a given flight is making, had dropped to 45% and less, whereas Braniffs planes needed 70% to meet cash-flow requirements. Said Senior Vice President Sam Coats: "We were way below water." Not even the $11 million that Eastern Air Lines paid three weeks ago to buy the rights to fly some of Braniff's Latin...
...words beyond numbering zip into the mind and flash a dizzy variety of meaning into the mysterious circuits of knowing. A great many of them bring along not only their meanings but some extra freight-a load of judgment or bias that plays upon the emotions instead of lighting up the understanding. These words deserve careful handling-and minding. They are loaded...
...their promises to the poor. Family and welfare allowances have gone up; the minimum wage has risen 20.9%. Reduction of the work week from 40 to 39 hours and the addition of a fifth week of paid annual vacation for most workers have not only lightened the work load but are supposed to be spreading available jobs. Unemployment, nevertheless, broke the 2 million mark last winter and has only recently dropped slightly below that figure. Inflation, which at first dipped to 12%, is inching back up to 14%, even though it is falling in many other countries...