BRIEFLY : MTA BOARD RATIFIES PACT WITH DRIVERS.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board ratified rat·i·fy tr.v. rat·i·fied, rat·i·fy·ing, rat·i·fies To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm. See Synonyms at approve. a three-year deal Monday with the union representing its 4,200 bus and rail drivers, giving the workers pay hikes, but also securing several changes that will save the agency more than $20 million. The 10-0 vote seals the deal with the United Transportation Union, whose members overwhelmingly approved the contract Sunday. The wage hikes include three 1.5-percent increases plus cost-of-living increases, and also provide other benefits, particularly to part-timers and recently hired full-time drivers. ?13-Daily News Passengers escape fire on studio tour UNIVERSAL CITY - A tourist tram burst into flames at Universal Studios Hollywood on Monday, sending passengers fleeing and igniting a western movie backdrop. Nobody was hurt in the fire that broke out on the buslike, open vehicle, which was carrying about 15 passengers on a tour of the studio. Everyone got off safely, and the blaze was controlled in about 15 minutes. But a few moments later, the brake on the tram gave out, and it rolled into a wooden livery LIVERY, Engl. law. 1. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to obtain the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. F. N. B. 155. 3. stable facade. Damage was estimated at $100,000. ?13Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Police arrest pair on airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. at LAX Two passengers on a Continental Airlines flight were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX on Monday, after trying to get into the cockpit and throwing hot coffee on a flight attendant, authorities say. Police and firefighters were sent to the tarmac to meet Continental Flight 1837, which was coming from Houston, about 6 p.m., said Airport Police Sgt. Daniel Vaughn. He said a woman was kicking at the cockpit door and ``making threatening statements.'' A man traveling with the enraged en·rage tr.v. en·raged, en·rag·ing, en·rag·es To put into a rage; infuriate. [Middle English *enragen, from Old French enrager : en-, causative pref. woman reportedly threw hot coffee on a flight attendant, causing second- and third-degree burns third-degree burns npl → brûlures fpl au troisième degré third-degree burns third npl → Verbrennungen pl dritten Grades , Vaughn said. ?13City News Service |
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