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...cities spend on police service have also helped fuel homeowners' fears. "People feel they're not getting enough protection," says Sergeant Norris Solomon, coordinator of private patrols for the Los Angeles police department. "A void has been created, and private enterprise has jumped in to make a buck." The Los Angeles area alone has some 500 security companies, roughly triple the number of just three years ago. Says former Los Angeles Police Chief Tom Reddin, 67, who retired in 1969 and now runs Reddin Security Services: "Business is crazy...
...graduates for $200 million during a fund-raising effort now in the planning stages. Public universities are also asking Big Business for gifts. Arizona State is using $ 12 million it got from private industry to bolster its growing engineering program. Indeed, state schools are also trying to earn a buck just about any way they can. Wisconsin hopes to cash in on the 325 acres it owns in downtown Madison, and the University of Alabama has been developing coal deposits on land that the state received from the Federal Government after the Civil War to compensate for battle damage...
Ledford, his eye on a buck, would like to market the artificial onion. The thing was, he explained, he wanted to put the registered trademark of the Vidalia sweet onion, a cartoonish character called the Yumion (sort of the Pillsbury Doughboy of the onion racket), on his product, and for that he needed permission from the Chamber. Walden said he would bring it up at the next board meeting, but he suspected Ledford "could bank on it." The editor bounded out, a happy...
Some 4.2 million U.S. visitors are expected in Europe this year, and that's a record. It is not only the robust buck that propels this amicable invasion. Most goods and services in Europe come cheaper this summer because many governments have devalued their currencies. In addition, Americans appear to have increasing faith in their economy. For example, schoolteachers, who traditionally account for an important part of Arthur Frommer Holidays business, are traveling in large numbers again. Connie Sykes, Frommer's general manager, explains: "Either they've decided they will continue to be employed or they...
...Chicago's 3,005,072. Not imperiled is Chicago's enduring sense of superiority over Los Angeles. Asserts Joseph Harmon, president of Chicago's convention and tourism bureau: "The bottom line is people know they can come here and still make a buck." Sniffed Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko: "So, a buffalo chip is bigger than a diamond." But at least one Chicagoan has already adapted to reality. Three years ago Tricia Fox opened the Second City Day School. Now she has seven and calls them the Fox Day Schools. "I didn't want...