Word: pritzkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with Hyatt was originally suggested by two of Braniff's retired pilots. When efforts to find someone to rescue the airline dragged, they pitched the idea to Hyatt Chairman Jay Pritzker, 60, who calculated that Braniff's hefty losses before going bankrupt could be worth some $300 million in tax credits to Hyatt. The agreement was completed just in time. The clock was due to run out on Braniff's flying future this week, and the company would have been turned into a small-aircraft maintenance firm...
Some of the most successful programs find new ways of stressing the importance of diligence and study. In Chicago, Abram Nicholas Pritzker, whose family controls the Hyatt hotel chain, has set up a trust fund to pay the $50,000 yearly expenses of the after-hours program...
...work cannot be recognized by any personal style other than its marvelous competence and attention to detail. Roche, 59, seems above the style wars raging in the world of architecture. That lofty stance may be one reason why last week he won that world's highest honor: the Pritzker Architecture Prize...
Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...British architect James Stirling, who this week unveiled his plans for the Fogg Art Museum's new building, was named on Wednesday the winner of the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The award, established in 1979 by the Pritzker family, owners of the Hvatt Hotel chain, is given annually "to honor the lifetime contributions of pre-eminent architects all over the world...