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Harvard's perpetual search for property to develop has led it to a former car dealership at 275 Concord Avenue, which is now home to the Radcliffe Pottery Studio and a branch of the Cambridge Public Library...
...turned out to be John MacDougall, 25, a part-time engineer at a satellite transmission facility in Ocala, Fla., and owner of a home-dish dealership whose business had been hurt by scrambling. MacDougall pleaded guilty to the unauthorized transmission of an interfering signal. If a plea- bargain arrangement is accepted, he will be fined $5,000 and sentenced to one year of probation. In a statement, MacDougall said he took the action to "focus public attention on a problem that affects millions of Americans." But he acknowledged, "In retrospect, I realize the means I used may not have been...
Frederick Muzi, owner of the Muzi Ford dealership and a member of Hyatt's campaign committee, said yesterday that he had known Hyatt since working with him for tax-cutting legislation in 1974. Muzi said he would continue to support the candidate, whom he described as "a very stable person, both feet on the ground, very neat, very articulate." He added that "from what I have known of Greg Hyatt, everything points in another direction...
...industry in Silicon Valley slows down, everybody, from realtors in Cupertino to restaurant owners along Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose, gets a bad case of the blues. But one of the best barometers of the health of California's computer manufacturers is Doug Young. He manages the Porsche dealership in Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Sales at his showroom, where the most expensive models go for $50,000, are so sensitive to the region's economic trends that a few days of good news will generate a mini Porsche rally. On the other hand, downtime...
...auto companies originally did not like the move to megadealers. General Motors tried to control its dealers by limiting them to just one GM franchise. Potamkin avoided that constraint by keeping only one GM dealership in his name and letting his sons own the others. Other dealers who wanted to increase revenues started taking on hot-selling imports. Owners of Chevrolet or Cadillac franchises were soon selling German and Japanese cars as well. This year GM changed its rules, allowing dealers to own five separate GM franchises and invest in five more...