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...with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in 1969, back when the government assigned routes and set profit margins, assuring existing carriers a captive market and barring new entrants. It was partly because Kimberly-Clark's headquarters, then in Neenah, Wis., was off the beaten path that the company started its private fleet. "Air travel was difficult and expensive. We were frustrated," Hoeksema says. The paper company named its unit Midwest Express Airlines and began offering service to the public--specifically the well-heeled business public--in 1984, the year the Civil Aeronautics Board was abolished and a flood of new airlines entered...
With lowered banners and lifted spirits, Boston and the Celtics welcomed Rick Pitino last Thursday at a press conference on the old parquet floor of the new Fleet Center. Actually, "welcomed" is an understatement. Pitino, who agreed to leave his old Kentucky home two days before to become coach and president of the once proud but lately pathetic franchise, was coddled, crowned and canonized...
...something else. He is the head coach of the Indiana Pacers. That, quite simply, isn't right. Larry told us that he would never follow in the footsteps of Red and K.C. and pace the sidelines of the Garden...oops, I mean the Fleet Center. But when he said that, we didn't believe...
...county, which uses the money for a drug-awareness program. "Obviously, I get instant credibility," says Barcom executive Mark Bartle. But there's a danger too: if the department should come to rely on private funds for needs like vehicle maintenance, it could have to scramble to keep its fleet roadworthy if the sponsors drive...
...1920s, its chairman and creator, Alfred P. Sloan, decreed, "General Motors will be known for building cars for every purse and purpose." As part of a stunning, perhaps even desperate, act of corporate rebirth, GM is spending a suitably giant-size $6 billion this year to launch a fleet of 16 new vehicles. The goal is to occupy rediscovered market niches, and begin the next decade's equally awesome mission--reclaiming its lost automotive empire...