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...almanac's most unexpected result: of the top 20 areas, only four are in the western part of the country. In the 1981 study, cities stood or fell on their own merits. Now the authors give smaller areas credit for the amenities of nearby major cities. Suburban Norwalk, Conn., for example, gained points for New York City's top standing in the arts and health care, but was not penalized for New York's last-place rating in crime. Thus Norwalk went from 148th place to ninth. New York's rank is 25th...
...funds, nearly every city got a piece. A compromise formula based on population, tax base and per capita income led to a thin, scattershot dispersal of money. The recipients included not only down-at-the-heels municipalities but also gilded places like Palm Springs, Calif., Vail, Colo., and Greenwich, Conn. Critics point out that 25% of grants in 1983 went to cities in the ten wealthiest states...
...headquarters of Union Carbide in Danbury, Conn., used to have a reputation as a fairly happy shop. Jokes were freely exchanged in the corridors, and executives casually walked around the firm's suburban grounds. Although profits last year were just $323 million on sales of $9.5 billion, below those of the chemical-industry giants, company executives gave the impression that things would soon get better. But since the gas leak on Dec. 3 in Bhopal, India, that left at least 1,400 people dead and perhaps 170,000 more injured, the mood in Danbury has changed dramatically. No one, from...
...proceeds will go for a memorial honoring Eric H. Straceman '85, who slipped in the shower at his New Canasa, Conn., home last May 24, knocking himself unconscious and drowning in a few inches of water...
There is now a code word for this kind of operation: intrapreneurship. Gifford Pinchot III, 42, a management consultant from New Haven, Conn., coined the term and has written a book about it called Intrapreneuring, or Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (Harper & Row, $19.95). Writes Pinchot: "The more rapidly American business learns to use the entrepreneurial talent inside large organizations, the better. The alternative in a time of rapid change is stagnation and decline...