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Barrett keeps the door to her modest, windowless office at Southwest's Dallas headquarters open. She spends several weeks a year meeting with employees in the 58 cities served by the airline. And, of course, she always flies coach. Southwest does not have first class or business class on its planes. Her photo appears in a feature called "Colleen's Corner" in the in-flight magazine, and she's slightly uncomfortable when recognized by passengers--even though most approach her to praise the airline. Some industry veterans question her influence, given her lack of interest in the financial side...
...look for reasons to admit,” Miller said. “This is not a time to be modest...
...father’s one Christmas hit song and makes a living doing nothing. Particularly, Grant’s character divides his day into units: browsing CDs, playing pool, sleeping, eating, entertaining. Now, I too had this freedom to mold my days and consequently live, for the modest three months, without the pressing demands of those outsiders that are regularly inside my life during the school year...
...part of the fascination of Duterte's personality is that he also has an incongruously soft and liberal streak. He lives in a modest house on a quiet street. He sends food to Muslim communities during Ramadan and to Catholic communities at Christmas. Almost every day in his office he receives constituents seeking assistance. In one 10-minute span, he gives a mother the bus fare to her home village, counsels a woman seeking a job and tenderly tells a young, badly scarred burn victim that he will pay for her operation and follow-up treatment. (Duterte is known...
...arms as if waiting for Ginger to foul up. He dares her to match him and, through competition, to be a partner in his dance-romance. She does the same step, but to the left, with smaller arm elevation, and, instead of the beseeching capper, ends with a modest stamp of her right foot - abrupt, dismissive, ever-so-slightly Fred-deflating. Her message to him: she's still just jaunting, not joining in. She won't dance...