Word: avision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Tasty closed, at dawn after aHalloween night spent serving revelers dressed formasquerade, it was expected to be for a short timeonly. Haddad's wife, Stephanie Avis Haddad, saidin 1997 that the Tasty might reopen in Leo's Placeon JFK St. late at night, or even return to theCSB...
We weren't alone. Cendant, the result of last year's merger of HFS, a franchise company whose brands included Howard Johnson and Avis, and CUC, a kind of discount-shopping club, dazzled many a portfolio manager. After downplaying its accounting "irregularities" last April, the company last week revealed that...
You've voted, gone to R-rated movies without having to sneak in, passed a driver's test and assumed all of the responsibilities and privileges that come with graduation from minorhood. But you can't drink (legally) or rent cars from Avis.
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."