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...centers. To head them off, each incoming villager is required to fill out detailed entrance papers and is then interviewed by a panel of refugees from his home area before being granted final admittance. Once inside, he is given rudimentary housing and a mere 10? a day to buy food and clothing from local merchants. "It's the best we can do at present. It's just enough for living," says a Vietnamese official...
Casual users of libraries are hardly aware of it, but library professionals and their more conscientious clients know about it all too well. They call it the "information explosion," and it has precipitated an odd paradox: most of the nation's public libraries have neither the money to buy nor the space to house the books and periodicals that a growing and insatiable public wants to read, while the technical disciplines-chiefly the sciences-have turned loose such a Niagara of information that even the wealthiest of corporate, collegiate or community libraries simply do not know what...
Feeding on Customers. Helicopters, costly to buy and operate, constitute only a tiny fraction of the nation's 9,000-plane taxi fleet. Taxi companies range from one-man, one-plane outfits to Detroit's 28-plane Tag Airlines, which has 100 employees and takes in $1,000,000 a year. Typical of the type is nine-plane Pilgrim Airlines, which has tripled its business in five years (to 15,000 passengers a year) by offering six scheduled flights a day from New London, Conn., to New York's Kennedy Airport. The trip costs $14.50 and takes...
...earthy passion for material goods. These fears and desires are being profitably exploited by two French businessmen who are giving their country men something as good as gold (which Frenchmen still hoard to the extent of $5 billion) to sink their savings into. The entrepreneurs' basic idea: buy your own railroad...
...conceived eleven years ago by Jean-Pierre Bruggeman, 44, and Jean Thomachot, 39, then French wine merchants in Algeria. They discovered that there was more money to be made in casks for shipping than in the wine. Extending the idea, they founded an investment company called Algeco to buy up railroad tank cars at prices ranging from $7,000 to $26,000, then leased the cars to oil companies and skimmed off 20% of the revenue as a management fee. Today Algeco owns more than 8,000 tank cars that haul everything from crude oil to liquid gas all over...