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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn pump up Midwest's revenue per passenger mile, or yield. Midwest's 24 DC-9s feature leather seats set two by two with no center seats. Dealing with a third fewer seats than standard passenger planes have, flight staff can give more individual attention. Besides, says Bob Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, "they have hot, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies...
...Roderick Bell, an Ohio state dropout turned businessman, bought two trucks as a tax write-off. Today Bell's firm, Texas American Express, shelters mainly profit. Sales are heading toward $12 million, and 80 freight trucks--whose colors range from salmon to emerald green to pink because employees can pick the shades they please--ply the roads from its modest base in Dallas to the Northeast and the West Coast. Bell is a success--and he has to work harder than ever to stay that...
...wouldn't be in this business if it weren't for deregulation," says Bell, who treats Texas American as a full-time job when he isn't looking after his insurance company, his used-car lot and his plastics-molding company. The barrier that had to be overcome was the heritage of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which opened routes only to trucker applicants who demonstrated need for the service, with, for example, affidavits from shippers. Carriers also had to show that their proposed haul would not harm other truckers' business, and the number of ICC licenses was restricted...
However, disapproval from competing businesses in the Square diminished the possibility of Harvard's signing on any of the big-name brands, such as McDonald's and Taco Bell, suggested by students...
...protest in a government class the fall of 1995, when he dressed in drag to rail against Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for his anti-gay comments at a prominent Colorado trial, his disdain for women's studies and his support of the controversial The Bell Curve...