Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spartak, on tour in America since the beginning of December, will travel to Montreal this morning and then depart for Moscow
...problem: Could dependable air travel be maintained while prices were severely cut by abolishing all frills? More important, could the basic structure of the U.S. corporation be changed so that everyone is an owner, everyone a manager...
...instructions to buy a couple of new suits. His bluntness was his way of peddling improvement. At the same time, Ueberroth was intensely opposed to workplace discrimination, frequently hiring older employees, giving younger ones serious responsibilities and using women managers years before they routinely had such roles in the travel business. The principle was important to him, but it also made good business sense, since he could pick from a larger pool of talent...
...person to run the Games. His first reaction was to decline. Who needed the 70% cut in pay (the Olympic salary: $104,000) and all the problems? Pressed a second time, he decided to take it after all. Nine months after accepting the job, he sold First Travel for $10.4 million and later forswore his Olympic salary to become a volunteer. At the start there was no staff and no money. Moreover, the city of Los Angeles had passed a resolution saying that not one cent of municipal funds could be spent on the Games. The first week Ueberroth...
...huge converted helicopter factory, the staff was growing. Virtual- ly all of the top men and wo- men Ueberroth had known for years. His style throughout was to turn responsibility over to tested deputies. The man who actually ran the Games, Harry Usher, formerly Ueberroth's travel business attorney, says leadership and inspiration, not operations, are Ueberroth's managerial gifts. Whenever his lieutenants bucked decisions upward, Ueberroth flung them back down. "Authority is 20% given," he would say, "and 80% taken. Take it." If someone faltered, Ueberroth did not hesitate to make a change. He once had to okay...