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In thousands of American companies large and small, the employees are starting to act as if they own the place. Well, they're entitled, because they do. Meet the new breed of hard-driving capitalist: the employee stockholder. At Oregon Steel Mills in Portland, the chairman's secretary has earned...
Travelers heading for the sun or the slopes this winter will probably notice a jump in the price of getting away from it all. The culprits this time are not the airlines but the leading U.S. car-rental agencies, which are imposing their first significant price increases in several years...
Consumer advocates have argued in recent years that CDWs are a lemon of a deal at the usual rate of $10 or more a day. Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, calculates that insurance companies can provide policyholders with comparable protection for about $1 a day. The...
Characteristically, Maxwell still shrugs off the questions and says with exaggerated humility, "My dream in life was to own a cow." Now he owns a whole herd of cash-cows to sustain an increasing debt necessary to finance his global expansion. With his military training, he does best with a...
But that is only the beginning of the possibilities. Most airlines have worked out reciprocal frequent-flyer deals with rental-car companies. When customers rent cars, they earn mileage with the affiliated airline; when they & pile up enough miles, they get discounts on future car rentals. At Avis, customers get...