Word: forte
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...while at least, William Alderdice, 39, and his brother James, 26, seemed to have the Midas touch. During the past three years, they transformed a small storefront jewelry business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., into the International Gold Bullion Exchange (IGBE), a thriving enterprise with 1,000 employees, branch offices in Dallas and Los Angeles, and 1982 sales of $80 million. William Alderdice, the company's chief executive, bragged that IGBE was the biggest gold and silver dealer in the U.S. In television commercials and ads splashed across such newspapers as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
...Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel for coverage of a March 1982 flood that forced many of the city's residents to evacuate their homes...
...CABLE WEEK will not be widely offered on newsstands or by general subscription. Instead, the magazine will be sold mainly to cable households, at 69? a copy. The inaugural issue was mailed to cable viewers in five cities: Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, Fla.; Audubon, N.J.; Arlington, Texas; and Peoria, Ill. The magazine is scheduled to add 25 markets and to reach 600,000 subscribers by year's end. Said Publisher Daniel Zucchi: "This is a cooperative marketing venture with cable operators. Every time we add a cable system, we add a subscriber base." Providing "system-specific" listings requires...
...beepers, it carries a monthly rental fee. Depending on the area, the cost will be about $4 to $8 a month, paid to the common carrier that transmits the signals; some carriers add a surcharge of 20? or so per beep. The pager was introduced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area last month, and should be available nationwide by the end of this year. Tandy expects to sell "a good deal more" than...
Some experts worry about the strain of staying in touch 24 hours a day. Marilyn Komechak, a Fort Worth psychologist who has clinically studied stress, believes that prolonged use of beepers produces anxiety and probably high blood pressure. "I have never seen anyone respond to a beep with a smile or a less than strident comment," she says...