AT&T Plans 24000 Job Cuts Across Unit
AT&T announced a plan to cut about 24,000 jobs in its communications products division, about 20 percent of that unit's 117,000 employees, to boost profitability. The company expects hundreds of millions in annual savings and offers transfers or financial incentives to affected workers, with most actions to be completed this year.
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New York
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
At&t
Communications
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant to Stay Closed for Safety Review
TVA chairman says Sequoyah Unit 1 will remain shut until safety equipment is proven reliable in an emergency. The closure follows March actions at Browns Ferry Alabama, with no nuclear power available from TVA during the interim. Aiken's Makin' crafts deadline looms. festival runs September 13-14 with the Taste of Aiken on September 14 in The Alley.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Sequoyah
Tennessee Valley Authority
Mont
TVA
Browns Ferry
Athens
Ala
Aiken
Makin
Toilet swirl myth tied to southern hemisphere explained
Brad Oliver a Rotarian from district 692 led a group study to Australia and discussed how toilet flushing direction is affected by hemispheric location. The piece contrasts this claim with a vivid aside about David Schwacke who was injured by his dog Kahlua after work on Tuesday, leaving a facial welt.
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Australia
Brad Oliver
David Schwacke
Kahlua
Schwacke
British Airplane Crash Kills 54 at Manchester Airport
A Airtours Boeing 737 carrying 137 people aborted takeoff at Manchester airport. Fifty four passengers died as 83 survivors were taken to hospitals with burns and injuries. Authorities investigate with Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II both reacting with statements of sympathy.
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Manchester
England
Greece
Mike Mather
Grand
First Jobs By SARAH OKESON
Aiken figures share early work stories from Tom Woodruff to Virginia Dunkel barger and others. The piece recalls Woodruff riding a 3 wheel bike from a K Mart stock area at sixteen, Clyburn shining shoes, Dunkel barger filing WWII casualties, and local leaders delivering papers and working in stores as teens.
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Tom Woodruff
K Mart
Woodruff
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Woodruff Drug Store
Aiken
William Clyburn
Aiken High
Aiken County
Clyburn
Brook Benton
Five Major Airline Disasters Mark 1985 Toll Tops 1,100
AP tally shows five crashes in 1985 with 1,100 plus deaths. Japan Airlines 747 hits mountain in Aug killing 520, Air India 747 explodes off Ireland coast with 329 dead, Iberia 727 crashes in Feb with 148 dead, Delta 1011 lands in Dallas in Aug with 135 dead, British Airtours 737 fire at Manchester in Aug kills at least 54.
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Associated Press
Japan Air Lines
Air-India
Ireland
Spetn
Delta Air Lines
Dallas-Fort Worth
Manchester
England
July inflation in U S holds at 0.2 percent figures
The Labor Department reports a 0.2 percent rise in the July consumer price index. Food costs edge up 0.1 percent while shelter costs surge 0.6 percent and energy declines boost the index. Analysts see 1985 inflation possibly the lowest in more than a decade.
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Washington
Labor Department
Track change at Aiken Mile Training Facility restores hopes
Ownership of the 50 year old Augusta area Aiken Mile Training Track was transferred to Dr. W S Flanagin of Augusta and his son Greenlee at the end of May from Summa Corporation which bought it in 1972 for 400000 dollars. The Flanagins hired Bill Davis a noted race track builder to upgrade the facility and win back horsemen and trainers who used the track in past seasons.
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Aiken
W.S. Flanagin
Augusta
Greenlee
Summa Corporation
Abraham Schultz
Flanagins
Bill Davis
Wilmington
Del
Meadowlands
Flushing
N.J
Sunshine Meadows
Delray Beach
Fla
Greenlee Flanagin
Sunday Aiken Standard Announces Expanded Sunday Coverage
The Sunday Aiken Standard promotes a new expanded sports coverage and color comics section beginning October 6 offering broader weekend reading in a full color format for readers seeking moreSunday edition content.
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Aiken Standard
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