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When James Dorsey, an unemployed teenager from Detroit, packed his bags to go to Dayton last summer, he looked forward to a promising new beginning. He enrolled in classes at a U.S. Job Corps residential training center, hoping to qualify for a clerical job. But Dorsey had hardly started classes when he was summoned to the program's medical office for an unpleasant surprise. He was informed that he had tested positive for AIDS antibodies during his required physical exam, then dropped from the program. "The world was pulled out from under me," recalls Dorsey, who has no symptoms...
...Billionaire Sam Walton from his Bentonville, Ark., home base. Between 1983 and 1987, its annual sales increased by a phenomenal 240%, to $16 billion. That surge lifted Wal-Mart to the No. 3 spot among retailers, ahead of J.C. Penney (1987 sales: $15.3 billion), Federated ($11.1 billion) and Dayton Hudson ($10.7 billion). In the past, Wal-Mart has concentrated on rural areas and not posed much of a threat to Sears, K mart or other established chains. But now Wal-Mart is expanding menacingly into several larger cities, including a few choice locations in K mart's home state...
...confection, have been restored perfectly, and they are not flukes but two redemptions among dozens, among hundreds. Downtowns are being preserved, piece by piece, and have been rediscovered, city by city, as places to live as well as work. "Almost every city, down to the third tier -- places like Dayton and Toledo -- has done something," says Northwestern University Urbanologist Louis Masotti. "It's not a fad. It's a demographic phenomenon. The 1980s have been the decade of the cities' revival...
Shari Aigner, an administrator of the Denver-based Independent Relocation Consultants Association, says that of the working couples who use her organization's services, "one in five reject transfers because the trailing spouse cannot find a job." Companies in Dayton and the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are now providing information about job openings to help overcome such difficulties...
...perilous pursuit. Many deals in progress when the crash hit have been scuttled or are in jeopardy because the original bids seem absurdly high after the drop in stock prices. Dart Group, a retail conglomerate controlled by Washington's Haft family, dropped its $68-a- share bid for the Dayton-Hudson department-store chain when the target company's shares fell to $30. Hong Kong-based Jardine Strategic Holdings called off a $390 million bid to buy a 20% interest in Bear Stearns when shares of the Wall Street firm plummeted from $23 to $12. The crash ended TWA Chairman...