Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...flight attendant is a "customer- service manager"), and all 4,000 full-time employees must move around in several different kinds of jobs. Burr occasionally takes his turn as a steward. Not only are the managers nonunion but each of them must buy at least 100 shares of People Express stock, on credit if necessary...
...gray-suited and blow-dried, Pittman is executive vice president and chief operating officer of MTV Networks Inc., a joint venture of Warner Communications and American Express. He earns $200,000 a year, and has stock options valued at $1.8 million. He has the job because he invented it, because he and his audience are all what he calls the TV babies...
...talking about a madness that is innocent, joyous and, finally, perhaps unconquerable and exemplary. Especially as it is presented by Matthew Modine in a brave performance--just over the top but under control--with Nicolas Cage playing sane and sensible counterpoint as Al. In movies ! like Midnight Express and Fame, Director Parker oversentimentalized innocence and oversensationalized the cruelty of the world that oppresses it. Not so in Birdy. Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best. He has turned an ordinarily bleak Philadelphia location into something akin to the Prince...
Some airlines are also discovering that deregulation is not always dandy. Since the industry was given increased freedom to set fares and pick routes in 1978, People Express and other new, cut-rate carriers have started shootouts in the skies. While such airlines as American, United and Delta reported strong profits in 1984, several others, including Pan American, Eastern, Western and Frontier, posted losses...