Word: piloted
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Scott and Beverly Williams lived all over the world during Scott's 20 years in the Air Force, but no matter where they were, one rule applied. "We raised our children to be color-blind," says Scott. But when the fighter pilot retired in 1991 and settled in the sleepy town of Hernando, Miss. (pop. 3,500), half an hour south of Memphis, Tenn., the family rule ran up against local tradition...
...Hoeksema, 50, Midwest's chairman and CEO, is a walking advertisement for the benefits of deregulation. He started as a pilot with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in 1969, back when the government assigned routes and set profit margins, assuring existing carriers a captive market and barring new entrants. It was partly because Kimberly-Clark's headquarters, then in Neenah, Wis., was off the beaten path that the company started its private fleet. "Air travel was difficult and expensive. We were frustrated," Hoeksema says. The paper company named its unit Midwest Express Airlines and began offering service to the public--specifically...
...fear disaster," he recalls. He studied law at the University of Wisconsin and in the early 1980s helped engineer Conrail's financial turnaround. In the mid-1980s, as president of Central Maine Power, he steered the divestiture of the controversial Seabrook nuclear plant. Rowe compares himself to the pilot of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, "navigating shifting waters" where "the shore is never quite the same...
DIED. AMY SVOBODA, 29, fighter pilot; after her A-10 jet plunged into the southwestern Arizona desert, in the first fatal crash of a female Air Force pilot...
...renewal of the PILOT agreement fixed the University's payments, which consequently have not kept up with inflation, leading residents to argue that the voluntary payments should be higher...