Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 20 students and faculty members gathered in Burr Hall to hear the reports which included studies of medieval French marital customs and the American Women's Army Corps in World...
...been completely harmonious. From the beginning, there have been predictable problems in integrating EDS's data services into GM's far-flung operations. Worse, EDS Chairman Ross Perot, who is now GM's largest stockholder (11.3 million shares) and a member of the board of directors, has become a burr in Smith's side. Perot has publicly sniped at the automaker's management for its isolation, resistance to change and indulgence in old-boy perks like chauffeured limousines...
...almost any subject, Schlesinger is capable of striking grace notes, like his throwaway line on Aaron Burr: "A man of undoubted talents who, however, was trusted by no one in the long course of American history except for his daughter Theodosia and Gore Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger...
...Frank Lorenzo, chairman of Houston-based Texas Air, triumph was savored in poker-faced silence. For Donald Burr, Lorenzo's onetime protege and chairman of ailing, once revolutionary People Express, it was time to put the best possible face on defeat. The two fierce rivals and captains of cheap U.S. air travel sat at opposite ends of a table last week in Manhattan's St. Regis- Sheraton hotel to announce what many had expected: the long, tortuous People Express saga had ended with the airline's tentative sale to rapidly expanding Texas Air. The price: a bargain $125 million...
...heated maneuvering continued. People Express Chairman Donald Burr later said the parent company had canvassed "every other available alternative," including the possible sale of Frontier to other parties. Eventually, rumors began to grow that Newark-based People, which only five years ago threw the entire passenger-airline industry into a tailspin, might itself be quietly on the backroom auction block...