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...Robert Joedicke, an airline expert for Shearson Lehman Bros.: "Running a company with labor unions on one side of the house and no unions on the other side is going to be tricky. Under those circumstances, collective bargaining can be contagious." In the merger agreement, Burr pledged to operate Frontier as a separate company until 1990. Says he: "Over the next five years, we'll try to convince the Frontier people of our way of doing things...
...Buying Frontier puts People Express in a nose-to-nose confrontation with Continental, which has an important base in Denver. It pits Burr against a former colleague turned rival: Frank Lorenzo, the chairman of Continental's parent company, Texas Air. In the 1970s, before leaving to found People Express, Burr was Lorenzo's second in command at what was then called Texas International. The two men were once very close friends, but they now have colliding ambitions...
Since then People's rapid growth has put immense pressure on Burr. A member of People's board of directors even feared that the company's acquisition of Frontier in October might be "a bridge too far for him" in terms of work load. Indeed, Burr often rises as early as 5:30 a.m. and begins work in the study of his white clapboard home in Bernardsville, N.J. There he toils all day Mondays, usually wearing a flannel shirt, baggy jeans and deck shoes. During the rest of the week he dons a business suit and drives 40 minutes...
Some combination of measures seems needed, and fast. Anything that affects matters ranging from the pace of oil exploration to the availability of slides in Chicago playgrounds must be taken very seriously. The nation, once proud of its frontier individualism, has gradually adopted a no-risk mentality based on the belief that if anything bad happens, someone should be made to pay. But as damage awards lose any connection to actual damages and insurance companies flail around anxiously, that someone is turning out to be everyone. --By George J. Church. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington, B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta and Michael Riley/Los...
...Israel should implement Security Council Resolution 425 [which calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory] and allow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to carry out its mission. The force should be deployed along the border, not inside Lebanon far from the frontier. In [U.N.] debates, Israel has been clearly blamed in connection with attacks against UNIFIL because Israel prevents it from discharging its duties...