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n судебный процесс; производство дела в судеto enter a lawsuit, to bring in a lawsuit — возбудить жалобу, предъявить иск
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I [faɪl]1) archivio m.; (cardboard) cartella f.; (ring binder) raccoglitore m.; (card tray) schedario m.2) (record) dossier m., pratica f., incartamento m. (on su)3) inform. file m., archivio m.II 1. [faɪl]1) amm. archiviare, schedare [letter, record]; registrare [ invoice]2) dir. presentare, inoltrare [application, complaint] ( with presso)to file a lawsuit — intentare (una) causa ( against a, contro)
3) giorn. inviare [ report]2.verbo intransitivo dir.III [faɪl] IV [faɪl]verbo transitivo limare [wood, metal]V [faɪl] VI [faɪl]verbo intransitivo camminare in filathey filed into, out of the classroom — entrarono in, uscirono dalla classe in fila
* * *I 1. noun(a line of soldiers etc walking one behind the other.)2. verb(to walk in a file: They filed across the road.)II 1. noun1) (a folder, loose-leaf book etc to hold papers.)2) (a collection of papers on a particular subject (kept in such a folder).)3) (in computing, a collection of data stored eg on a disc.)2. verb1) (to put (papers etc) in a file: He filed the letter under P.)2) (to bring (a suit) before a law court: to file (a suit) for divorce.)•- filename- filing cabinet III 1. noun(a steel tool with a rough surface for smoothing or rubbing away wood, metal etc.)2. verb(to cut or smooth with a file: She filed her nails.)- filings* * *I [faɪl]1) archivio m.; (cardboard) cartella f.; (ring binder) raccoglitore m.; (card tray) schedario m.2) (record) dossier m., pratica f., incartamento m. (on su)3) inform. file m., archivio m.II 1. [faɪl]1) amm. archiviare, schedare [letter, record]; registrare [ invoice]2) dir. presentare, inoltrare [application, complaint] ( with presso)to file a lawsuit — intentare (una) causa ( against a, contro)
3) giorn. inviare [ report]2.verbo intransitivo dir.III [faɪl] IV [faɪl]verbo transitivo limare [wood, metal]V [faɪl] VI [faɪl]verbo intransitivo camminare in filathey filed into, out of the classroom — entrarono in, uscirono dalla classe in fila
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1. n напильник, слесарная пилаfile hardness — твердость, определяемая напильником
2. n пилочка3. n шлифовка, отделка4. n разг. хитрец, пройдоха5. v пилить, подпиливать; шлифовать напильником6. v отделывать, дорабатывать7. n скоросшиватель, регистраторfile clerk — канцелярский служащий; делопроизводитель; регистратор
8. n шпилька9. n подшитые документы, бумагиspindle file — наколка, штырь или игла для накалывания бумаг
10. n подшивка11. n дело, досьеfile number — номер дела; регистрационный номер
on file — имеющийся в деле, приобщённый к делу
12. n вчт. информ. файл, массивinverted file — инвертированный файл, файл с инверсной организацией
13. v хранить, подшивать в определённом порядке14. v подшивать15. v сдавать в архивback file — архив; периодические издания
16. v регистрировать17. v амер. подавать, представлять документы18. v амер. обращаться с заявлением, просьбой19. v амер. передавать по телефону, телеграфу20. v амер. принять к исполнению21. n ряд, шеренга; колоннаin single file — гуськом, змейкой
Indian file — колонна по одному, «змейка»
22. n очередь, хвост23. n шахм. вертикаль24. n заячий след25. v идти гуськом; передвигаться колоннойto march in single file — идти гуськом; идти в затылок
26. v дефилировать, торжественно проходитьСинонимический ряд:1. archives (noun) archives; data; records2. computer item (noun) batch file; computer item; contents of disk; data base; document; program; software component; spreadsheet; text file3. dossier (noun) dossier; drawer; folder4. filing system (noun) card file; card index; classified index; filing cabinet; filing system; ready reference list; register; repository5. line (noun) column; echelon; line; queue; rank; row; straight line; string; tier6. metal tool (noun) bastard file; metal tool; nail file; rasp; rat tail file; sharpener7. apply (verb) apply; deposit; open a file; petition; request; submit; submit an application8. march (verb) march; step; walk9. put on file (verb) arrange; arrange in order; catalog; catalogue; categorise; categorize; classify; index; pigeonhole; put on file; record; register10. scrape with a file (verb) abrade; grind; level off; rasp; sand; scrape; scrape with a file; sharpen; smooth -
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[faɪl] 1. n( dossier) akta pl, dossier nt inv; ( folder) kartoteka f, teczka f; ( for loose leaf) segregator m, skoroszyt m; ( COMPUT) plik m; ( tool) pilnik m2. vtdocument włączać (włączyć perf) do dokumentacji; lawsuit wnosić (wnieść perf); metal, fingernails piłować (spiłować perf)to file in — wchodzić (wejść perf) jeden za drugim or gęsiego
to file out — wychodzić (wyjść perf) jeden za drugim or gęsiego
to file past — przechodzić (przejść perf) obok jeden za drugim or gęsiego, przedefilować ( perf) obok
to file for divorce — wnosić (wnieść perf) sprawę o rozwód
* * *I 1. noun(a line of soldiers etc walking one behind the other.) szereg2. verb(to walk in a file: They filed across the road.) iść w szereguII 1. noun1) (a folder, loose-leaf book etc to hold papers.) skoroszyt2) (a collection of papers on a particular subject (kept in such a folder).) akta3) (in computing, a collection of data stored eg on a disc.) plik2. verb1) (to put (papers etc) in a file: He filed the letter under P.) chować do akt2) (to bring (a suit) before a law court: to file (a suit) for divorce.) wnieść (sprawę) do sądu•- filename- filing cabinet III 1. noun(a steel tool with a rough surface for smoothing or rubbing away wood, metal etc.) pilnik2. verb(to cut or smooth with a file: She filed her nails.) opiłować- filings -
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1. n действие, работа; деятельность2. n действие, поступокdetangling action — действие, облегчающее расчесывание волос
purposive action — поступок, преследующий определённую цель
3. n акция; выступление, действиеminor action — действия мелких подразделений, столкновение
4. n воздействие, влияние5. n действие, развёртывание событий, основная сюжетная линия6. n театр. физические действия, движения; жестыon-off action — действие по принципу "включено-выключено"
logical action — логическое действие; логическая операция
7. n иск. движение8. n юр. иск; судебный процесс, судебное делоamicable action — «дружеское» судебное дело; дело, возбуждённое сторонами для получения судебного решения
9. n воен. бой; сражение; боевые действияin action — в бою; в действии
10. n тех. механизм11. n муз. механика12. n воен. ударный механизм13. n бурная деятельность; центр активности, гуща событийa piece of the action — доля в афере; плата за соучастие
14. n азартная игра, игра на деньгиcost of action — цена иска, сумма иска
15. n служба, богослужение,16. n канон обедни17. n моменты богослужения с участием прихожан18. n мат. операция19. v юр. редк. возбуждать уголовное делоСинонимический ряд:1. behavior (noun) behavior; behaviour; conduct; practice2. conflict (noun) affair; battle; brush; combat; conflict; contest; encounter; engagement; service; sortie3. deed (noun) accomplishment; act; deed; doing; endeavor; exercise; feat; maneuver; manoeuvre; move; step; thing4. gesticulation (noun) gesticulation; gesture; motion5. lawsuit (noun) case; cause; claim; lawsuit; litigation; proceeding; process; suit6. mechanism (noun) apparatus; contrivance; mechanism7. movement (noun) activity; business; effect; energy; movement; moving; operation; performance; performing; responseАнтонимический ряд:inactivity; indolence; inertia; lethargy; settlement; sluggishness -
11 ♦ file
♦ file (1) /faɪl/n.1 raccoglitore; schedario; classificatore; cartella; filza; (al pl., anche) archivio, schedario: I found it in the file marked ‘Loans’, l'ho trovato nel raccoglitore intestato ‘Prestiti’; I'll check in the files, controllerò nel nostro archivio; on file, registrato; schedato; in archivio2 pratica; dossier (franc.); fascicolo; incartamento; scheda: a confidential file, un dossier segreto; personal file, scheda personale; to keep (o to have) a file on sb., tenere q. schedato; tenere un dossier su q.3 (comput.) file: compressed file, file compresso; data file, file di dati; file extension, estensione del file; file sharing, condivisione di file; file size, dimensioni del file● file card, scheda (d'archivio) □ file case, classificatore □ file clerk, schedarista; archivista □ file copy, copia per l'archivio □ file folder, raccoglitore; carpetta (bur.) □ (TV, USA) file footage, immagini di repertorio □ file material, materiale d'archivio □ (comput.) file system, file system ( modello di gestione di file in un sistema operativo) □ ( slang USA) file thirteen, cestino della carta straccia □ ( slang USA) circular file, cestino della carta straccia.file (2) /faɪl/n.1 fila; coda: a file of soldiers [of ants], una fila di soldati [di formiche]; in single (o Indian) file, in fila indiana; to march in file, marciare in fila; sfilare; file leader, capofilafile (3) /faɪl/n.1 (tecn.) lima● file dust, limatura □ (mecc.) file hardness, durezza alla lima □ file-holder, portalime □ cabinet-file, lima per ebanisti □ diamond-file, lima a spada □ knife-edge file, lima a coltello □ three-square file, lima triangolare.(to) file (1) /faɪl/v. t.1 schedare; archiviare: to file invoices, schedare fatture; File these papers under ‘New Students’, archivia questi fogli sotto ‘Studenti nuovi’2 presentare, depositare ( un documento); inoltrare ( una domanda); (leg.) presentare istanza, intentare: to file a petition, presentare una petizione; to file an application, inoltrare una domanda; (leg.) to file a bankruptcy petition, presentare istanza di fallimento; to file a complaint, protestare ufficialmente; (leg.) sporgere querela; (leg.) to file a charge against sb., formalizzare un'accusa contro q.; Charges have been filed against him, è stato formalmente incriminato; (leg.) to file a lawsuit against sb., intentare un'azione legale contro q., citare q. in giudizio; fare causa a q.3 (leg.) mettere, passare agli atti: The case documents were filed by the clerks of the court, i documenti sulla causa sono stati messi agli atti dai cancellieri del tribunale(to) file (2) /faɪl/A v. i.marciare (o camminare) in fila; sfilare: to file away (o off) andarsene (marciando) in fila; to file in [out], entrare [uscire, allontanarsi] in fila; to file past (st.), sfilare (davanti a qc.)B v. t.far marciare in fila; far sfilare.(to) file (3) /faɪl/v. t. e i.(tecn.) limare: to file one's nails, limarsi le unghie; to file through window bars, limare le sbarre di una finestra -
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file [faɪl]1. noun• do we have a file on her? est-ce que nous avons un dossier sur elle ?• to be on file [person] être fichéb. (for metal, nails) lime fc. ( = line) file fb. limer• to file in/out entrer/sortir en file• they filed slowly past the ticket collector ils sont passés lentement les uns après les autres devant le contrôleur4. compounds* * *[faɪl] 1.1) ( for papers etc) gen dossier m; ( cardboard) chemise f; ( ring binder) classeur m; ( card tray) fichier m2) ( record) dossier m (on sur)3) Computing fichier m4) ( tool) lime f5) ( line) file f2.transitive verb1) Administration classer [invoice, letter, record] ( under sous)to file a lawsuit (against somebody) — intenter or faire un procès (à quelqu'un)
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A n1 ( for papers etc) gen dossier m ; ( cardboard) chemise f ; ( ring binder) classeur m ; ( card tray) fichier m ;2 ( record) dossier m (on sur) ; to have ou keep a file on sb avoir/conserver un dossier sur qn ; his fingerprints/details are on file ses empreintes digitales/coordonnées sont classées ; she's on file elle est fichée ; to open a file on sb/sth établir un dossier sur qn/qch ; it's time to close the file fig il est temps de classer l'affaire ;4 ( tool) lime f ;C vtr1 Admin classer [invoice, letter, record] ; to file sth under (the heading) ‘clients’ classer qch sous (la rubrique) ‘clients’ ;2 Jur déposer [application, complaint, request] (with auprès de) ; to file a petition in bankruptcy déposer son bilan ; to file a lawsuit (against sb) intenter or faire un procès (à qn) ; to file papers for adoption faire une demande d'adoption ; to file a claim for damages against sb intenter un procès pour dommages et intérêts à or contre qn ;3 Journ envoyer [report] ;4 limer [wood, metal] ; to file one's nails se limer les ongles ; to file through a bar couper un barreau à la lime.D vi1 Jur to file for (a) divorce demander le divorce ;2 ( walk) marcher en file ; they filed into/out of the classroom ils sont entrés dans/sortis de la salle l'un après l'autre ; we filed past the coffin nous avons défilé devant le cercueil.■ file down:▶ file [sth] down, file down [sth] niveler [qch] à la lime [surface] ; égaliser [qch] à la lime [tooth] ; limer [claw]. -
14 Bosman-Urteil
■ Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofes aus dem Jahre 1995, die zur Abschaffung der Ablösesumme für den Wechsel eines Spielers von einem Verein zu einem anderen Verein nach Vertragsende und zur Abschaffung der Beschränkung der Ausländerzahl in Vereinsmannschaften führte.► Das Bosman-Urteil ist das Ergebnis der Rechtsstreitigkeiten des Berufsspielers Jean-Marc Bosman gegen seinen ehemaligen Arbeitgeber, der seinen Wechsel zu einem neuen Verein durch die Forderung einer hohen Ablösesumme verhinderte.■ A 1995 European Court of Justice decision, primarily effective in the European countries concerned, which led to the abolition of transfer payments for players whose contract has expired, and to the abolition of limitations on foreign players in club teams.► The Bosman ruling was the result of a lawsuit filed by the professional player Jean-Marc Bosman against his former club, who stopped his move to a new club by demanding a high transfer fee. -
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American ( abbreviation Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) = commission pour l'égalité des chances d'emploi aux États-UnisRecent large settlements obtained by the EEOC include the $18 million settlement of sexual and racial harassment claims with Ford Motor Company in September 1999 and a $28 million settlement of an age discrimination case with Johnson & Higgins, Inc. in July 1999. One year before, the EEOC had obtained the largest amount ever paid in the resolution of a sexual harassment case, when Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America agreed to pay $34 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by the EEOC in April 1996.
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16 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN
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lawsuit — noun (C) a charge, claim, or complaint against someone that is made in a court of law by a private person or company, not by the police or state; suit 1 (4): file a lawsuit: Local people filed a private lawsuit against the oil company over water… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
filed a suit — made a legal claim, performed the first act of a lawsuit … English contemporary dictionary
Strategic lawsuit against public participation — A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation ( SLAPP ) is a lawsuit or a threat of lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition … Wikipedia
Mesa Airlines v. Uslan lawsuit — Mesa Airlines vs. Uslan was a lawsuit filed by Mesa against Hawaii resident Mike Uslan for his participation in Hawaii s airline Employees Repelling Ornstein, (also known as H.E.R.O., a grassroots group of airline employees who spread anti… … Wikipedia