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...Local businessmen, whose expansion and development will be impacted the most by the zoning changes, generally said they were "reluctantly supportive" of the Overlay District...
Only a month ago, the fate of Westland, a financially troubled helicopter manufacturer, seemed a relatively minor matter, principally of interest to British businessmen. Now it has mushroomed into the most damaging political scandal to face Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher since she took office in 1979. Three weeks ago, Michael Heseltine, Thatcher's Defense Minister, stormed out of a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street and quit over the government's handling of what has become known as "the Westland affair." Last week the controversy claimed another victim: Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan, a friend and political ally...
...economic issues Aquino has drawn cheers from Filipino businessmen by promising to return the country to the path of free enterprise. Among other things, she has vowed to break the Marcos government's bureaucratic stranglehold on the national economy, to dismantle local monopolies over sugar and coconut marketing and production, and to renegotiate the country's foreign debt...
...teaching centers seem one of those ideas that please just about everybody, including businessmen: last year Sylvan was taken over by a child- care conglomerate called Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. for $5.2 million in stock (some $3 million for Fowler). And Encyclopedia Britannica absorbed Reading Game for an undisclosed price. Huntington remains independent, its owner ebullient about the future of teaching for profit. "It's an American response to an academic problem," he says. "You can solve this problem and make money...
...Cabinet are against gutting the Executive Order, as are the leaders of both parties in Congress. In the Senate, 67 members have urged the President to retain the current Executive Order. The system of goals has support not only among civil rights organizations but also from many U.S. businessmen, who find it a fair and flexible solution. Says Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: "We've got the strongest consensus on this that we've ever had on a civil rights issue...