Word: founder
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...bogged down by debt, they wonder, would the carrier be tempted to save money by lowering its standards on maintenance and other safety measures? Everyone from passengers to politicians has begun to debate that question as billion-dollar takeover wars sweep the U.S. airline industry. Says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation- research group: "Buyouts need careful scrutiny, particularly with regard to maintenance practices. Safety must be paramount, and safety has suffered when maintenance is shoddy...
Helena Luczywo, co-editor of Poland's first independent newspaper and founder of the Solidarity News Agency, was at Harvard this weekend to accept the Nieman Foundation's Louise M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism...
...company's founder, De Pree has little patience for by-the-book managers who ignore workers' needs for "spirit, excellence, beauty and joy." His criticism can be scathing: "Managers who have no beliefs but only understand methodology and quantification are modern-day eunuchs," he writes. "They can never engender competence or confidence...
...blood on a sidewalk in a crack-infested Oakland neighborhood with three bullets in his head. For much of his 47 years, Newton had preached and practiced violence as a necessary means of self-defense for blacks in urban America. He will be remembered most as the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, enthroned in a rattan chair, wearing a black beret, with a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other...
Sons of famous men often stumble when they try to follow in their father's footsteps. That fate has befallen Frederick Wang, 38, son of Wang Laboratories founder An Wang. The younger Wang, who took over as president of the troubled company nearly three years ago, gave up the job last week. He was apparently pushed out by his father, who retains the chairmanship and who told a reporter that he graded his son at "75%." A new president will be recruited from outside...