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...nudie show can go on in Mount Ephraim, N.J., a small (pop. 4,863) bedroom community near Camden and Philadelphia. At the Six-Thirteen Corp. "adult bookstore," customers used to be able to pop a token worth 25? into a coin-operated machine, causing a shade to roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor...
...increase in consulting according to some professors, because it pays less than many other schools, knowing that faculty members always have the outside option. "Over the decades, Harvard salaries have lagged behind other places. Because of the prestige, there's the expectation that you will convert it into the coin outside," Zvi Griliches, chairman of the Economics Department says...
...Angeles' Woodbury University or the Millsaps College School of Business in Jackson, Miss. Many schools have also started abbreviated M.B.A. programs for experienced executives. Already there is some talk of an M.B.A. glut and of what Dean Jack Steele, of the University of Southern California, calls "the debased coin of the realm." But at the top level-a position widely attributed to Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago and Pennsylvania's Wharton School, followed by not more than half a dozen others-enrollment remains fairly steady, while the competition to get in becomes increasingly fierce. Stanford Dean...
...effort to be sensual. I thought that if I could get this woman to be on-screen the way she was in repose, she would be utterly striking." He took her to Hollywood for screen tests with Jack Nicholson. Two years before, she had tested for Nicholson's Coin' South. She lost that part, but he sent her roses and a note that read: "I'm sure we'll work together some time soon. We will have lots of fun and make lots of money. Love, Jack...
...diminishing even faster, at a geometric rate. Thus the conventional wisdom, that what goes up must come down, may be false physics." But who knows for sure? Says Goodman: "One of my old maxims runs: Financial genius is a rising market. Booms create heroes. Someone who can flip a coin to come up heads ten times in a row will be asked not only about his technique of flipping nickels but about his opinions on events in Washington...