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Neeleman has raided rivals for employee-focused top executives, including COO Dave Barger, a key part of the team that turned around Continental Airlines. Neeleman lured chief financial officer John Owen from Southwest, "because there is no one else in the world who is better at buying airplanes and running a successful financial operation." For his people person, Neeleman chose the only executive who ever fired him. That was Ann Rhoades, who helped develop the airline industry's happiest employee group at Southwest. But in 1994 she pink-slipped Neeleman after Southwest bought Morris Air, another low-price airline...
Neeleman, who wants to take JetBlue public within two years, is just as obsessed with keeping costs down. Like Southwest, JetBlue flies only one type of aircraft, which keeps a lid on training and maintenance expenses. With flight attendants and even executives like Barger chipping in to help clean the jets even before they have landed, turnaround times average just 35 minutes, as fast as industry leader Southwest...
...alleged approach was unwanted, or even when it happened, just that Willey told her something about a sexual encounter with the President. "I couldn't do that," Steele told the McDougal jury. "I left the meeting in tears. I didn't know anything to tell them." Prosecutor David Barger has told Steele that three former friends of hers will testify that that she told them about Willey and the President. But Barger's biggest hurdle is identifying a motive that would explain why Steele has stuck so hard to her second story...
...right that Cambridge now claims to subvert that decision is really not a right at all. A local community has the right to defy a barger political entity if and only if it thinks fundamental rights have been violated. In this case, the city would have to persuade the courts that the removal of rent control infringes on the defined liberties of its inhabitants. And that will be a hard case to make...
...more prosaic technical and political discussion groups, meanwhile, have become so crowded with writers crying for attention that a Darwinian survival principle has started to prevail. "It's so competitive that you have to work on your style if you want to make any impact," says Jorn Barger, a software designer in Chicago. Good writing on the Net tends to be clear, vigorous, witty and above all brief. "The medium favors the terse," says Crawford Kilian, a writing teacher at Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Short paragraphs, bulleted lists and one-liners are the units of thought here...