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Despite its growing pains, People has many supporters among industry experts. Alfred Kahn, the former Civil Aeronautics Board chairman who is the father of deregulation, gives the airline "a better than even chance" of succeeding in the Dallas and Atlanta markets. Kahn, now a professor of political economy at Cornell, believes that the public is rooting for People. "The big carriers would like nothing more than to squash the little carriers," he says, "but the consumers have shown that they prefer competition. They want discount airlines to live." And as the name People Express implies, giving the people what they...
...summer has not been kind to Ted Turner. His Atlanta Braves are buried in fifth place in the National League West, and now the cable-TV king's chances of gaining control of CBS appear to be as slim as his World Series hopes. Last week CBS succeeded in buying back 21% of its own stock for about $1 billion in a deal that will make it virtually impossible for Turner's takeover effort to succeed. Both the Federal Communications Commission and a U.S. district court in Atlanta blocked Turner's last-minute legal challenges to the network's move...
...seeing was something new," Gottlieb recalls. Then, when another case turned up so quickly, he says, "I knew I was witnessing medical history, but I had no comprehension of what this illness would become." He notified federal health authorities of the four cases, and in June 1981, Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control published what was to be the first report on the strange new ailment...
...equally competitive and treacherous world of business, the cable-TV king showed his spunk and resilience once again last week. Just as Turner admitted that his quixotic attempt to take over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company for $1.5 billion and become a partner with the Soviet Union in staging and televising an international sports extravaganza called the Goodwill Games...
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