Word: pioneering
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...discounters have been the most important force for change since deregulation began, and People Express has been the boldest pioneer. Airborne since 1981, the no-frills carrier now operates 56 jetliners and a route map that stretches from Los Angeles to London and includes 26 cities. While its revenues (1983: $286.6 million) are still well behind those of behemoths like United ($5.4 billion), People Express is already the twelfth-largest U.S. carrier. Its secret: low costs that enable it to undersell the competition, along with unusually strong employee morale. The average annual salary for People Express...
DIED. Ernest Tubb, 70, the "Texas Troubadour," pioneer of honky-tonk country music and pillar of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry since 1943, whose many hits included I'm Walking the Floor Over You, Waltz Across Texas and Tomorrow Never Comes; of emphysema; in Nashville...
...next day Valerie went for an interview at the Infertility Center of New York, a profit-making agency owned by Michigan Attorney Noel Keane, a pioneer in the controversial business of matching surrogate mothers with infertile parents. She was asked to fill out a five-page application, detailing her medical history and reasons for applying. Most applicants are "genuine, sincere, family-oriented women," says agency Administrator Donna Spiselman. The motives they list range from "I enjoy being pregnant" and an urge to "share maternal joy" to a need to alleviate guilt about a past abortion by bearing someone else...
...receipt of political donations ? and of a cocker spaniel named Checkers. Nixon, of course, faced only the camera, not 200 reporters, and he had a script. With Ferraro, every thing is different, special, more consequential. The stakes are higher because whatever happens to Ferraro happens to a pioneer, a historic figure. Mondale edged close to a complaint about the intense public focus last week. "It may have occurred in the past," he said, "that when a man ran for office, they dragged the wife before the public and went through their records and their businesses the they have...
...channel will probably pit MTV directly against Ted Turner, another cable pioneer, whose holdings include the Cable News Network and SuperStation WTBS. This week Turner is expected to announce plans for a music channel that would offer pop, rock, rhythm and blues, and country...