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...John S. DeMott...
...company that first put two-way radios in police cars in 1938, is marketing a portable version that lets callers remove the devices from their cars. People can thus take the phone indoors and use it just like that one over there on the wall. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Jerome Cramer/Washington
...point to our surplus in services and convince ourselves that probably everything is going to be all right. Manufacturing is the base that creates many of those services." For U.S. manufacturing, investors, politicians and plain citizens, that is an important nuts-and-bolts lesson. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Detroit and Adam Zagorin/New York
...Reagan Administration wants to close some tax-law loopholes to recoup $12 billion over the next three years. But since all deductions have strong and vocal constituents, that plan could prove as difficult to achieve as any other revenue-raising scheme. -By John S. DeMott. Reportedby Jay Branegan/Washington
...bankruptcy by the end of the year. Said Sigoloff, now riding annual sales of $3 billion from a leaner Wickes, which focuses mainly on the home-improvement market: "Considering the size of the case and the complexity, it's probably a world's record." -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Allen Pusey/Dallas and Adam Zagorin/New York, with other bureaus