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...chain began to take off, growing from eight stores to 100 in her first five years with the firm, Gibson kept the books, traveled as a buyer and even delivered loads of merchandise in her station wagon when the stores ran short. For three years during the company's heaviest growth, when the Gibsons' two daughters Kelly and Beth were in high school, James Gibson stayed home to take care of them. He now owns J. Duffy's, an Ohio company that specializes in designer home accessories...
Thomas Cavanagh was a Northrop Corp. employee with military secrets to sell. In search of a buyer, he called Soviet emissaries in the U.S., arranged a meeting and offered "Stealth" bomber technology for a piddling $25,000. Even for so little, his hosts were not about to accept. The FBI had intercepted his original call, and the men to whom he was hawking his wares were undercover FBI agents. He was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life...
...Omaha development called West Fair-acres Village especially promising. The architects, John Goldman and Daniel Solomon, have designed housing the old-fashioned way, comfortably dense, with a pleasantly irregular street grid and just enough stylistic variation. The basic model is an adapted Craftsman bungalow, circa 1920, but a buyer of a one-story house can mix and match from among four brick porches and four compatible timber gable ends...
Loud outcries greeted Mulroney's decision last month to sell De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., the unprofitable manufacturer of the Dash-8 commuter aircraft, to the Boeing company. Workers and leaders of both opposition parties would have preferred to see the government find a Canadian buyer for the company. Quebecers protested when the government allowed Ultramar, a British owned oil firm, to close down a Montreal refinery. Suzanne Blais-Grenier, who had already been demoted from her post as Environment Minister, used the controversy as an excuse to resign...
...entire year. To help repay bank loans on which it defaulted last summer, the company is selling Ticketron, its electronic ticketing service, and other operations. An earlier attempt to raise badly needed cash by selling Commercial Credit, Control Data's financial unit, failed last year for want of a buyer willing to pay the asking price...