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...corporate battle against drugs is a bonanza for dozens of small companies that provide the weapons. Private laboratories that perform drug tests, for example, are growing rapidly. So are security firms that supply undercover agents. Professional Law Enforcement, a five-year-old Dayton firm, has doubled its business in the past year. Says President William Taylor III: "Companies are starting to recognize that they have to attack the problem in a different way. You can't send a standard security guard or a management person out there to handle a person dealing in drugs...
...Phillips (11.2 p.p.g.) and Webster (11.3 p.p.g.) entered the contest in a race for the team's scoring leadership. Webster copped the crown by scoring 18 on the evening while Phillips recorded just 17...After averaging only 60.8 points per game going into the weekend, Harvard hit a scoring bonanza with 78 points Friday night and 70 Saturday...Dudley had four blocked shots on the evening...Four of the five Eli starters finished the contest with four personal fouls. Meanwhile, not one Crimson cager had more than three...Webster went six for six from the charity stripe...Yale now holds...
...Texas--football and spring football." Former University of Texas Basketball Coach Abe Lemons laments, "You can lay a football down in a parking lot and draw a crowd," but college jump shooters have been a rougher sell in the Lone Star State. Historically, pro basketball has been no bonanza either. One night in 1973, the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association counted 130 paying customers and moved to San Antonio...
Certainly the swimsuit issue is a once-a-year bonanza for the magazine. Advertising pulls in nearly three times as much revenue as any other edition, as the publishers expect to sell over 800,000 copies--about eight times normal newsstand sales...
...recent years the chill in Washington-Moscow relations has turned the annual meetings of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council into a littlenoticed and lightly attended affair. But last week, in search of a bonanza, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and more than 400 U.S. business leaders descended on Moscow for this year's meeting. Last year trade between the two countries amounted to only $3.9 billion, mostly in grain shipments from the U.S. Yet the executives got a jolt of optimism from last month's summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They came to Moscow...