Word: ackerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since 1980 and suffered a 28-day strike by ground workers in March. Pan Am will use the money to reduce its $1.2 billion debt and help pay for 28 jets it is getting from Airbus Industrie at a cost of more than $1 billion. Pan Am Chairman Edward Acker called the route sale "a great trauma for me personally. It was like letting your child leave home to get married or go off to school...
...directors hired Acker, believing that his skill at turning Air Florida from a small intrastate carrier into a profitable, regional airline was just what Pan Am needed. Acker swiftly integrated the staffs of Pan Am and National and restructured the airline's routes, dropping some cities but adding 24 more. He got rid of money-losing air freighters and put fuel-efficient Boeing 737s on flights in Europe. Pan Am's remaining 28,000 employees (vs. 36,000 in 1980) were persuaded to take a 10% pay cut. Meanwhile, the airline poured $25 million into upgrading its fleet...
...American. C. Edward Acker, 54, once the risk-taking boss of Air Florida, was so convinced that he could turn around Pan American World Airways that he made a daring bet. If the airline failed to make money on its 1983 operations, Acker would forgo his chairman's salary of $475,000. Acker won his bet. Pan Am had a slim operating profit of $52.4 million last year, vs. a loss of $314.5 million in 1982. Predicts Acker: "We will continue to improve service by every means possible. We are going to move forward with even stronger results...
Paced by Junior John Solomon's 19 points, junior Matt Acker's 17 and senior Chris Harvey's 13, the Harvard Classics basketball club downed Hanscom Air Force Base, 76-73, yesterday afternoon at Briggs Cage. The win raises the club's record...
Another Cornell student, Nick Acker, said, "No one even suspected it was going on at Cornell." The raid, however, came as no surprise to the University administrators. Mull said, because they were probably informed of FBI plans beforehand...