Word: lorenzo
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...matter what eventually happens to People Express, it has changed the airline industry forever. Burr, Lorenzo and other discounters proved that there was a huge untapped market for low-cost air travel. They have met the needs of millions of Americans. Says Venice Gorman, 31, a New York City hospital worker who flew on People to see her parents in Norfolk: "Before People Express, I used to stay home and call my relatives on the phone. Now I can visit in person...
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...
When it comes to wielding a pair of scissors?as tailors or barbers?Italians rank among the world's finest. And there's no more elegant setting for a haircut than Genoa's Barbieria Giacalone, a tiny, three-chair gem squeezed into the city's oldest quarter near St. Lorenzo cathedral. Its eponymous founder, Archimede Giacalone, established his 10-sq-m premises in 1882 to serve sailors traveling through the city's busy port...
...there's no more elegant setting for a haircut than Genoa's Barbieria Giacalone, a tiny, three-chair gem squeezed into the city's oldest quarter near St. Lorenzo cathedral. Its eponymous founder, Archimede Giacalone, established his 10-sq-m premises in 1882 to serve sailors traveling through the city's busy port...
...arose from a group of the airline's workers, led by white-collar, non-unionized employees. Advised by Christopher Bond, a former Governor of Missouri, this faction had reportedly raised more than $1 billion in the financial markets of Western Europe in an effort to top the Icahn and Lorenzo bids...