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NELC Department Administrator Carol Cross remembered Lichtenstadter as a "very warm, fine woman who was always generous with her time, even after she retired...
More than 9,000 city, state and regional entities are aggressively seeking new industry, according to Robert Ady, president of PHH Fantus, a corporate relocation firm in Chicago. Armed with generous tax breaks, low-interest loans and job-training subsidies, not to mention four-color brochures boasting cheaper housing, better schools, prettier sunsets and friendlier neighbors, they are pitching their hearts out to major corporations and medium-size manufacturing firms as well. Localities will spend hundreds of millions this year to lure companies away from their established bases, twice as much as they laid out 10 years...
Help at this level can be generous, and aid-giving countries have notably eased some disasters. Andrew Natsios, director of foreign disaster assistance for the U.S. Agency for International Development, says as many as 350,000 Bangladeshis were saved this time, thanks to a U.S.-built cyclone-warning system. Natsios also points to U.S.-supplied volcano and earthquake monitors and a Chilean tidal-wave-alert network. With satellite analysis of African vegetation, he adds, Washington pre-positioned 30,000 tons of supplies before the famine last year in the Sudan...
...lenders don't feel any better knowing they have mainly themselves to blame for this fix. Through much of the '80s they were tripping over one another to offer generous terms for even the unlikeliest projects. "In the madness of that decade, many hotels were overfinanced and overleveraged," says Bruce Batlin, a partner with the consulting firm Pannell Kerr Forster. "A lot of hotels are in trouble because of that...
...small classes (eight pupils to one teacher), fixed seat assignments and a rigid routine, and protection from loud noises and other disturbing stimulation. Activities are emphasized over paper-and-pencil exercises. "We'll read a story and bring it to life with hand puppets," explains school psychologist Valerie Wallace. Generous warmth and praise help youngsters achieve an emotional equilibrium. Of all Salvin's drug-exposed children, more than half have been able to transfer to regular school classes, with special tutoring and counseling...