Word: hartsfield
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...busiest airport. Chicago's O'Hare airport still has more planes landing and taking off than any other airport--as a frequent visitor to O'Hare, often for longer than I'd intended to stay, I have grown to suspect that a lot more land than take off--but Hartsfield International handles more passengers...
Fleming Companies, an Oklahoma City-based wholesale food distributor and owner of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket franchise, has developed a concept called Chef's Cupboard in 150 of its markets, offering food on a par with Boston Market. Fleming has also begun a new market prototype in Hartsfield, Ohio, called the IGA Supercenter. At the 62,000-sq.-ft. grocery behemoth, shoppers can drop off their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw...
...Congressmen who felt they were sent to Washington to trim the budget, downsize the Federal Government and lower taxes. But he also has paid attention to his constituents, many of whom depend on air travel and the military for their livelihood (the Third is home to Fort Gillem and Hartsfield Airport), supporting the repeal of airline fuel taxes and just about any bill that would increase defense spending...
Before a visitor has even left Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, he is loudly assaulted by the city's pride in itself: "Awakens as a world leader," says one postcard, among the "American-Made Collectors' Souvenirs and Spoons" in an airport gift shop, and another calls it ''a competitor's paradise." Terminal videos instruct you on how to invest money here, and a large ad reminds you that the born-again town was voted the top American city for "global companies" in 1994 by one magazine and the best city for small businesses by another. Atlanta ("A Star...
...anyone," says Mark Morro, chairman of Air 21, which last December began flying Fokker F.28 4000s, leased from USAir, out of Fresno. "We're bringing passengers back to the airport." Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet, which bases its 47-plane fleet in Atlanta, says Delta, its looming neighbor at Hartsfield Airfield, has nothing to fear. "We stole people from their living rooms and automobiles," he insists, not from Delta flights. Maybe, but ValuJet earned $67.8 million last year on sales of $367.8 million, nearly triple its sales...