Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Crimson coach John Kerr was effusive in his praise for Truntzer...
With the Crimson safely ahead, Head Coach John Kerr began resting some of his players, but the team continued to play well. In the 86th minute, Yale did manage to strike again. Williams scored against junior Brandon Renken, who had replaced Mejias in goal, from around six yards...
...hardscrabble land with little productive value. "Cost is not an object," marvels appraiser Billy Snow, cutting into his chicken-fried steak. Architectural firms such as Kerrville's Artisan Group are busy building homes as big as country clubs with private jetports. "People have built castles, actual castles," says Kerr County's chief appraiser, Fourth Coates. "They even change the direction of streams." Take the Stelmachs, for example. Rhonda, a decorator, and her husband Leigh, an executive with Dollar General Store in Tennessee, bought their lavish ranch two years ago, right after it was featured on a glossy Texas Farm & Ranch...
...phenomenal trajectory of growth that tripped up El Paso Chile. Formed in 1980, when Park Kerr and his mother Norma sold decorative strings of chile peppers on the street in El Paso, Texas, the company within a decade was selling $1.5 million annually of food products such as salsas. But operations were tilting out of control, so mother and son brought in Kerr's brother-in-law Sean Henschel, a management consultant, to run things. Park's sister Monica also came to work in the company...
Business got better--and work worse--Henschel says, when "we started growing like a rocket." Henschel hired professional managers: a head of operations, a national sales manager, a controller. "These people picked up the ball and ran with it," Henschel says. Kerr, on the other hand, played defense, frustrating them at every turn. "I'd think, 'Goddammit, it's my business, and I'll do what I want,'" he says. "I'd rather drink bleach than go to a team meeting...