Word: burrs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Donald Burr...
Sure, says Donald Burr, 43, founder and chairman of People Express, who has done both. Four years ago, when People Express became one of the first new carriers to go into business after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Burr's fledgling venture consisted of little more than one abandoned, rat- infested terminal in Newark and three used Boeing 737s purchased from Lufthansa. Today, People Express is the tenth busiest airline in the U.S., carrying nearly 1 million passengers a month. Some of its fares are one- fourth those of its competitors, but its profits for 1984 will total...
Occasionally the Corporation must deal with a specific policy question which cuts across faculty boundaries. Calkins and Francis H. Burr '35, who were both on the Corporation during the student upheavals of the late 1960s, say much could have been avoided if the University had adopted its decentralized administrative structure earlier, and been more responsive to community concerns. Calkins says that it Harvard then had a vice president in charge of community relations, many of the issues of the day either would not have developed or could have been dealt with much more easily...
...Burr agrees, and he says that while the events of 1969 posed the toughest problems of his time on the board, they did not bring about the sweeping changes in Harvard's administration they are often given credit for. He says an administrative reshuffling was needed anyway and that they just accelerated the process. Most issues and decisions were still tackled in the same careful style. "I don't think a whole lot was accomplished by all that churning around," he says...
...Burr agrees, and he says that while the events of 1969 posed the toughest problems of his time on the board, they did not bring about the sweeping changes in Harvard's administration they are often given credit for. He says an administrative reshuffling was needed anyway and that they just accelerated the process. Most issues and decisions are still tackled in the same careful style. "I don't think a hell of a lot was accomplished by all that churning around," he says...