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Zoning codes can fine-tune a community with a thoroughness that sometimes seems virtually totalitarian. A homeowner will be told how close to a lot line he can build or plant trees, how high his fences may be, what additions he may build. A piggery war broke out in Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore...
...death in 1966, the Man with the Mouse had bought, secretly and at the fire-sale price of roughly $200 an acre, 43 sq. mi. of Orlando ruburbs (about twice the size of Manhattan and more than 100 times the area of California's Disneyland) on which to build the world's largest theme park. Florida's Governor predicted that the scheme would "bring a new world of entertainment, pleasure and economic development to the state of Florida...
...worked it would yield far more than its price tag. O'Rourke, in persuading the company's directors to pump money into the project, was blunt: "I figured if we could produce $30 million to $50 million a year in sales, and it cost just $15 million to build, that was a good deal...
Still, Department 260's near total automation amounts to more than the old and familiar threat to the shrinking blue-collar work force. Says Krukowski: "Before, you always needed people out there to build the special items. It's the sophistication of the automation here that has to have people worried...
...tragedy shocked Boeing's employees. But it also seemed to redouble their determination to build the best and safest possible planes. Just ask workers like young Ellis Clark's dad Stanley, who installs 737 flight-control cables. Says he: "I watch something come in one door as thousands of parts and roll out the other door as a ready-to-fly airplane. There's a great satisfaction to that. I can say, 'That baby is mine...