Bob Collins
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Archives for February 2009
Southwest Airlines made itself an aviation star by — mostly — avoiding direct competition with the big airlines. It flew to Midway instead of O’Hare. It concentrated on Love Field instead of the giant Dallas-Ft. Worth and all the big airlines. It flew to Providence and Manchester, New Hampshire instead of Boston. It never came Read more →
Chris Dillman thought he could get out in front of the economic wave, and find work in a bigger city like Duluth before more people got laid off and became his competition
A surprising number of students on the News Cut on Campus Tour are interested in getting an education and then going out and doing good, and if there’s money to be made in the process, so much the better.
Becky Segbee wants to travel the world when she graduates from college. She’d like to get to Liberia so she can see the parents she hasn’t seen in nine years.
There’s a demand for dental hygienists, but there aren’t enough openings in colleges to train them