Word: westin
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...determined Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole last week as she complained about an old, exasperating problem in the airline industry: frequent flight delays. At Dole's request and with the promise of immunity from antitrust prosecution, representatives of 45 airlines met for four days in the ballroom of Washington's Westin Hotel. They proceeded to rewrite the summer flight schedules at sorely congested airports serving five major cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, Dallas and Atlanta. At Newark airport, for example, the airlines moved 13 of the 57 scheduled arrivals and departures out of the hectic 6 p.m.-to-7 p.m. time slot...
...news staff of 1,470 before Capital Cities Communications took control in early 1986 and eliminated 75 more positions last year, News President Roone Arledge has ordered a re-examination of the division and its $275 million budget. Arledge's request for suggestions has already claimed a victim: Av Westin, vice president for program development, who distributed to Capital Cities/ABC executives an unpublished magazine article he wrote. Titled "Days of Penury, Days of Affluence," Westin's 18- page memo argued that ABC's producers were more efficient 18 years ago, when he produced the network's nightly news show...
Signs in the America Ballroom of the Westin Hotel said it all: "Charleston Cheers for JPK," "Allston Loves JPK," "Newton Wishes They Could Vote For Joe Kennedy...
Almost 90 percent of the Charles Hotel, 20 percent of the Ritz-Carlton and 15 percent of the Westin Hotel were taken up last night by Harvard revelers, hotel officials said. "Everyone's dressed in tuxes, and everyone's wearing crimson ties," said Martha W. Sullivan, public relations director for the Charles Hotel. "The celebration is keeping the Charles Hotel, as well as other hotels in Boston and Cambridge, very busy," she said...
...quality. Says Terry Maltbie, secretary-treasurer of the Communications Workers union local in Landover, Md.: "Telephone operators used to be a voice with a smile, but automation has depersonalized their jobs." Courtesy and carefulness remain important but elusive factors in many service-industry tasks. Notes Columbia University Professor Alan Westin, an authority on office automation: "In these types of jobs, companies who count numbers too closely will lose their edge...