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DIED. ROBERT TOWNSEND, 77, business guru whose best-selling Up the Organization detailed how he jump-started Avis' flagging car rentals; in the West Indies. So what was his secret? One, revealed in his 97-chapter treatise, was to serve big lunches before board meetings.
"We don't have a lot of details yet," said co-owner Stephanie Avis Haddad, whose father sold the Tasty to her and her husband Peter seven years ago. "We're anticipating moving to 35 JFK St., but we're not completely cast in stone at this point."
But Stephanie Avis Haddad--whose father sold the Tasty to her and her husband seven years ago--said last night in a phone interview that the chances of relocating the Tasty in the Square are extremely slim.
Yet accusations of discrimination continued. In a statement filed last week, a former Avis worker said the company had a policy of refusing to give corporate accounts to yeshivas (Jewish schools). Avis called any suggestion that it had discriminated against Jews "ridiculous and completely false." The company said it had...
"What we try to do," Silverman says, "is assemble different brands that have huge internal synergies." Take yet another HFS business: time-share vacation properties. More than two million families are members of Resort Condominiums International, the world's largest time-share exchange network, which Silverman picked up for $825...