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...largest U.S. airline company (1986 revenues: $4.4 billion). Besides Eastern, Texas Air runs Continental, which has absorbed New York Air, Frontier and People Express. All told, Lorenzo and his lieutenants oversee 628 jets and 72,500 employees, ferrying 94 million passengers (roughly the combined populations of France and Spain) on more than 1 million flights each year...
...also performed last Christmas at St. Bartholomew's Cathedral in New York City, singing Renaissance carols from Spain and Germany...
...often argued that the indiference shown by voters here is an inevitable result of the democracy's aging. And it is true that Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal are young democracies where citizens still remember what it means to conquer tyranny. Perhaps in such countries there is unjustified idealism about the power of the people. But is it really naive that Italian schools provide for courses on civic education and explicitly address the importance of political participation...
...such consumer products as BMWs and Bordeaux wine. Other important export categories range from chemicals and pharmaceuticals to industrial machinery and office equipment. Europe's proudest achievement, perhaps, is its new prominence in aerospace. Airbus, the aircraft consortium backed by the governments of France, Britain, West Germany and Spain, has emerged as a major competitor to America's Boeing in the passenger-jet market. Last month Europe confirmed its successful lift-off in the space market by hoisting two communications satellites into orbit atop an Ariane rocket. While the U.S. space shuttle remains grounded, Arianespace, the commercial...
Kinnock denied that Labor would "jettison our commitments" or that the party was "retreating or pandering to yuppies." Instead, he argued that the new tilt was a concession to "social realities." When a worker earns $600 a week, owns his own house, car and a vacation retreat in Spain, the party leader declared, "you do not say, 'Let me take you out of your misery, brother...