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About 75 percent of our workers’ comp costs were for truck drivers. Seventy-five percent of our liability claims were because trucks were driving over mailboxes or knocking down gates. When we added it all up, it was ridiculous. It’s crazy we never thought of it before. After testing it out further, the company decided to get out of trucks altogeth
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Kevin Horgan
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Lorenzo knew he had a good reason to risk the dangers inherent in the merger of any two airlines, a reason he often described with the phrase “critical mass.” An airline didn’t necessarily have to be big in overall terms (although that had its virtues), but it had to be big in its principal operating locations. It was on the same principle that Bob
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Michael Linnen
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Marquez
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Neumanns needed to fund their increasingly lavish lifestyle.
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It reminds me of when they asked John Kennedy how he became a hero, and he said, “It’s easy, they sank my boat.” Tiger basically gave us an ultimatum that said: “Either sell us fifty-one percent of your company at book value, or we’re going to set up other distributors, no matter what this piece of paper says.” That gave us an idea that we maybe be
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