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...other Square businessmen are less sanguine about the development. "When they tear the old building down, a little of me will go down with it....[Gelotte's] has been a landmark for 45 years," says John Penney, who worked for Gelotte's for 14 years and is now manager of Ferranti Dege Camera Shop across the street...
...Government should not have to take all the blame for paying $91 for a 3? screw. Shouldn't the businessmen who charge those prices accept some of the responsibility for the waste...
...defectors: "If Reagan does not resolve this before the election, it won't matter what he's done on inflation, the economy, taxes or whatever." Calls for a Marine withdrawal came from another unexpected source last week: Saudi Arabia. Speaking to a delegation of visiting U.S. businessmen in Riyadh, Crown Prince Abdullah said that the U.S. troops should be getting Israeli forces out of Lebanon. Syria, he noted, would follow suit. Such advice from Abdullah, who is King Fahd's half brother and Deputy Prime Minister, astounded U.S. officials. Not only have the Saudis been urging Washington...
...Indiana are seeking permission to pass part of their loss on to customers in the form of higher fees. Many antinuclear activists see recent events as confirmation of all their dire predictions. "This is a failed technology," says Melody Moore, director of Chicago-based Citizens Against Nuclear Power. Even businessmen sympathetic to nuclear energy as a source of electric power are pessimistic about its future. "Nuclear power is well into free fall. It's beyond recovery," says John Nichols, president of Illinois Tool Works, a diversified manufacturing firm...
...year high. "We usually don't like to make predictions," says Grimm's research director, Tomislava Simic. "But I think you can expect to see the trend continue." That alarms some economists and politicians, who contend that takeovers are wasteful and dangerously concentrate corporate power. But many businessmen answer that under current conditions it often makes more financial sense to buy an existing company than to start...