Word: columbus
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...Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World...
...stodgy utility rivals. "What other industry in America still sends agents into your home to read meters just as they did in 1935?" asks Enron spokesman Mark Palmer. Enron is putting its money where its boasts are: gearing up for wireless metering and building a billing center near Columbus, Ohio, with the capacity to produce statements for no fewer than--count 'em--30 million customers...
Crandall is the kind of blunt corporate instrument who is used to this sort of stuff. He has frequently antagonized the pilots over the years and once even mocked a pilot-commissioned study of the company, saying, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." But he may also have misread apa's intent. Crandall thought he had a deal last fall, but a hard-line union contingent, working through the Internet, mobilized membership to reject a contract offer blessed by the union's executive committee...
...COLUMBUS: After 19 months in the top job, Robert Massey abruptly resigned as president and CEO of CompuServe. In a written statement from H&R Block, which owns some 80 percent of the online service, Block CEO Frank Salizzoni said that Massey left to pursue other interests, and said he will assume Massey?s responsibilities until a successor is found. Block discouraged speculation that Massey's departure was related to this Thursday?s release of CompuServe?s third quarter financial results, which are expected to be grim. On the service's website, Massey notes that 1996 was a trying time...
...Remove Columbus Day: The true symbolism of Columbus Day is denounced by many, and ignored by almost everyone else. A significant portion of the American people find the holiday downright offensive...