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...Richard Barton is already a bit of a relic. The chief of online travel agency Expedia still pads around his Seattle-area headquarters in his socks and manages to hit the slopes almost every weekend, partying away like it's 1999. But that's O.K., because unlike so many now extinct dotcoms, Expedia is solidly profitable, netting $20 million last quarter as it doubled gross bookings from a year ago, to $1.47 billion--overshadowing the $915 million collected by chief rival, Travelocity. And as Expedia begins this month to offer its smorgasbord of services to the $180 billion U.S. business...
...lifelong resident of Massachusetts, Barton was born in Lawrence and grew up in Andover. His day-to-day passions were gardening, dancing, and Spanish music...
...Barton is survived by his wife, his brother, his sister Anne Barton and his mother Marguerite Barton...
After serving as president of the Fenway Civic Organization, Barton was appointed chair of the Fenway Planning Taskforce. It was his job to serve the interests of both the residents of the Fenway area and the owners of the Red Sox. This proved to be an impossible task, his wife said and Barton resigned after many years of service...
...great ability to define the problem, and have people understand it with a minimum of rhetoric,” said his brother, David Barton, of Lowell...