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...this brave new marketplace, education and business are harder and harder to separate. For this school year, Paramount budgeted $5,000 for advertising and $6,000 for textbooks. Even as the school was freezing funds for new supplies, Paramount principal Bud Garrett had to send his teachers door-to-door to recruit new pupils. "We scrambled big time," explains Garrett, "flyering and advertising until we got up to 140." While Garrett and his staff were out fishing for students, Cline was hard at work on another venture: a second Paramount campus in nearby Peoria, where he says there...
...operate free of many district and state regulations. Skeptical administrators gave Sved and Williams just six months to round up $200,000 in start-up money and find a site for the school. After securing funding at the last moment from Wells Fargo Bank, the two hurriedly went door-to-door to recruit students. In September 1994, Accelerated opened with two teachers--Sved and Williams--and 50 students, shoehorned into a leased church social hall...
...optimistic, since Kinkade's international exposure has been limited. But Felix Quinn, who opened Britain's first Kinkade gallery nearly two years ago, believes they are entirely justified. With nearly $1 million in turnover during his initial year in business, he more than doubled his financial target. A former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, Quinn discovered Kinkade's art during a 1998 visit to San Diego. He purchased a few pieces for his own collection and was soon hooked. "Once you have a piece and you make that commitment, you want another one," he explains...
They held a teach-in on Tuesday, served free Fair Trade coffee at the beginning of the week, canvassed door-to-door around the yard and postered all over campus to spread the word about their cause...
Smith's most prominent supporter on the council--current President Fentrice D. Driskell '01--has declined to formally endorse his campaign, saying she does not want to hurt other candidates' feelings. However, she is actively campaigning for Smith, postering and going door-to-door, in addition to soliciting other endorsements for Smith...