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Parts of Chambers County, Texas, have lost 9 ft. of coast to Galveston Bay in the past nine months. Louisiana has shrunk by 300 sq. mi. since 1970; entire parishes may disappear in the next 50 years. At Boca Grande Pass, an inlet on the Gulf Coast of Florida, some 200 million cu. yds. of sand have been carried seaward by the tidal currents. In North Carolina, where erosion this year alone has cut into beachfront property up to 60 ft. in places, the venerable Cape Hatteras lighthouse is in peril of the encroaching sea. Soon it must either...
PEOPLE in Chicago must not be very intelligent. No member of the police force is capable of uttering either a calm sentence or a sentence devoid of profanity. Translations of Spanish interjections such as "diarrhea de boca" demonstrate the eloquence of the gangsters as well...
...meetings of the commission or of Chrysler's board, Iacocca comes to New York about three times a month. He stays in the company's three-room suite at the Waldorf Towers. In Boca Raton, Fla., he owns a condominium (with five bathrooms) overlooking the Atlantic. But much of his time he spends at home in Bloomfield Hills, a sylvan suburb northwest of Detroit...
...manufacturing and marketing strategy, usually without asking for approval from headquarters. One unit is developing automatic teller machines for banks; another is building industrial robots. IBM's best-known IBU produced the company's Personal Computer. A dozen executives led by Philip D. Estridge, 47, set up headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., in 1980 with a blank check and a mandate to get IBM into the personal-computer business as soon as possible. The group proceeded to break some of the most sacrosanct IBM traditions. Instead of just using IBM's legendary sales organization, it decided to sell through computer...
...conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite off the devices. Sensormatic of Boca Raton, Fla., has some 200 million tags in 40,000 detection systems in stores around the world. Shops originally hid the tags inside each piece of merchandise, but the devices were so successful that too many criminals were being caught. Retailers now generally pin them on the outside of garments...