The Skilling decision still leaves plenty of room for a zealous prosecutor, Ayer warns.
To them , Ayer's Rock represents the delicate balance between ancient traditions, modern society and nature.
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First he sped 140 km south to Ayer Keroh, in Malacca state, for a series of meetings.
Tan and fit at 57 years old, Mr. Ayer speaks quickly and throws in management bromides with practiced casualness.
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The writer-director, David Ayer, has a talent for violent confrontations and filthy talk.
Ayer builds the film around shocking and realistic violence, which he never romanticizes.
Ayer, the infamous logical positivist from Oxford who had arrived to run it.
Catching things on the fly, Ayer uses a handheld camera, spinning down alleys, up stairways, in and out of apartments.
As he hears all the time, consolidation brings economies of scale, but Mr. Ayer brushes this off, perhaps a tad defensively.
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Mr. Ayer says he isn't interested in a tie-up with a bigger carrier, and Alaska's high stock price keeps unwanted suitors away.
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Steven Ayer, Roman Ciosek, John Lang and Jeffrey Sullivan, left Morgan Stanley Smith Barney on the Friday before the February long weekend.
In looking ahead, Mr. Ayer's experience at Alaska brings him back to what's basic at any other business: First worry about making money.
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"We say we want to share generously during really good times, rather than lock in really high wages all the time, " says Mr. Ayer.
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"It's a question of CEOs having seen this movie one too many times, so hopefully they don't want to replay it, " says Mr. Ayer.
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Jessica Rodriguez, who owns Cuba de Ayer restaurant in Burtonsville, Maryland, is part of that younger generation looking to change the views of her community.
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Mr. Ayer suggests that airline executives need to change their mindset.
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Others capture a sense of the sacred in the middle of Australia's Outback, where Ayer's Rock -- or Uluru, as it's known to the Aborigines -- stands.
Ayer has a talent for violent confrontation and filthy talk.
"Historically we were great at customer service, " says Mr. Ayer.
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Hartford Insurance's chief executive, Ramani Ayer, was born in India.
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Ayer sets up the gang as the essence of self-destroying evil nihilism as a working method and a game and the two cops as order and good will personified.
One of Ayer's first appointments, though, was of a very different sort of man: John Watling, a student of physics and psychology who had taken to attending philosophy seminars.
Undaunted, Ayer turned UCL into one of the liveliest centres of English-language philosophy, hiring men who later became public intellectuals, including Sir Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim and Sir Bernard Williams.
Further south, there are more cultural nuclei in Little Havana, where nostalgia-chic clubs and galleries such as Hoy Como Ayer and Cuba Ocho vibrate with rhythms from new and old exiles.
Where other archivists were reverently accumulating the papers of Lincoln or Dickens, he wanted Myrna Loy's dry-cleaning bills, Freddie Ayer's cheque stubs and Basil Rathbone's phone bills, if he could get them.
Madison Ayer, an Ashoka Fellow elected in 2011, is one such social entrepreneur who is taking advantage of a new initiative at Ashoka that connects the needs of social entrepreneurs with leading law schools.
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In dramatizing the human price of warfare and of the drug wars at home and its hypocrisies Ayer takes a street-smart view of class-based anxieties: his characters are one break away from a toehold on respectability, from jail, or from death.
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