Word: plushness
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...about 30 men and women, most in their mid-20s, straggle into the plush classroom. Some bear the look of their recent past--the collegiate T-shirts and knapsacks. Some sport the fashion of their professional future--the smartly tailored suits and briefcases Rob Portman joins them, settles on the green swivel seat and arranges his materials--notebook, pens, and breakfast: croissant, and a Styrofoam cup of coffee, from the bistro-cum-cafeteria, Soupcon...
...types" who hire on for less and work hard. They have reason to: on the average, People Express workers own $20,000 worth of stock in the company. The onetime schoolteachers, anthropologists and art historians recruited by Burr seem to thrive in a company that has no secretaries or plush offices, and whose chief financial officer, Robert McAdoo, helps serve coffee on some flights. Says McAdoo: "We're all in this together...
Twice a week, anybody who can make it is invited to the plush 250-seat Louis B. Mayer Memorial Theater for the showing of first-run movies, though not all the new movies sit well with the residents. "When they start to get into bed," said Mae Clarke, who is remembered best for having a grapefruit shoved in her face by James Cagney in Public Enemy in 1931, "I walk...
...each evening, a plush white-red-orange-and-yellow Dash 7 deHavilland jet takes off from New York City's Butler Marine Air Terminal in Queens. Aboard are 48 or so professional and business people, but the flight is pure pleasure, the complimentary champagne flows and, best of all, the round-trip ticket is free. Thirty-five minutes later, the aircraft touches down near Atlantic City, and after a ten-minute ride into town, the jetting junketers are at the crap and blackjack tables of Resorts International's huge Casino Hotel. Resorts expects each of them to wager...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will makeup its postponed Yale game this Tuesday at 2.30 p.m. at the Business School to conclude its season. . . While the St. Louis game may not have been the highlight of the trip journey, staying at the plush Marriot, and treating themselves to a night of blues...