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...being lowered by a number of concerns. Seven hotel and motel chains-including Hilton, Knott and Hotel Corp. of America-have already introduced assorted room rate cuts of up to 40%. Also in effect are new 10% reductions in the rates of the three biggest auto rental companies, Hertz, Avis and National...
Following the lead of its U.S. licenser, Avis Transport of Canada Ltd. still needles Hertz with its "We try harder" buttons. Avis in Canada tries so hard, in fact, that it can no longer continue its underdog promotion and bill itself as No. 2 in the auto-rental business. With gross revenues of over $17 million in 1967, Avis is now No. 1 in Canada...
...bought an Edmonton real estate firm that became a subsidiary called Avord Holdings Ltd. Since then, Avord has built hotels and office and apartment buildings in Canada's major cities. Last fall Avis took over the garage in Montreal's Dominion Square building. One of its tenants-Hertz...
...report: "Harvard's Riesman rightly sneers at the spectacle of '150 Avises trying to become a Hertz.' " The quote is out of context; no sneerer, I was discussing how the many upwardly mobile institutions were raising faculty salaries and making recruitment difficult for the less affluent. I was not disparaging academic entrepreneurship, as my sympathy for Gould's ambitions should make clear...
...become better by renaming it a university, and a doctoral program without an adequate faculty is worse than none. Yet countless ill-equipped colleges are clamoring for the prestige of university status, and Harvard's Riesman rightly sneers at the spectacle of "150 Avises trying to become a Hertz...