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...estimates that ten dish dealers in the area have closed their doors in just the past two weeks. Many consumers are upset that the costly dishes they bought in pursuit of video independence may turn out to be duds. Says Vincent Morgan, 41, who has a dish in the backyard of his south Los Angeles home: "When the skies go black, a lot of people are going to end up with a very expensive birdbath...
...million and $20 million, is fitting for the Coca-Cola Co. (1985 sales: $7.9 billion) as it turns 100. A century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier and vastly more diversified than ever before. Reflecting that fact, Coca-Cola...
...were living in a mock shantytown in Harvard Yard and I wrote a letter explaining that I had once thought about living in a mock shantytown in my backyard, would you feel better? If I claimed to understand how much you were sacrificing and suffering in your mock shantytown, would you feel supported? Would you feel respected...
Some workers get so freaked out on drugs that they become a menace to everyone around them. A meter reader for a Washington utility became crazed after taking PCP and ran from one backyard to another. He hid behind bushes and jumped out and screamed at frightened neighborhood residents until police arrested him. In New Jersey a dentist who injected himself with three syringes of cocaine every morning as he drove down the turnpike to work began to complain that the fillings he was putting into patients' mouths were talking to him. His partners quickly forced the dentist to sell...
Hayward did not purchase her for millions of dollars at the Keeneland yearling sales in Kentucky. Mating the old family mare, Better Queen, to a vagabond called Charlie Coast, Hayward bred Concession in the backyard at Nissequogue, N.Y., weaned her, broke her and mucked stalls for $6 an hour to keep her at Belmont. When the Jockey Club rejected the grand name Hayward first submitted, Royal Prerogative, Katrina and her leggy bay conceded their plainness with grace and humor. Concession would have made it to the races this month...