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Versace lived directly on busy Ocean Drive, a 15-block strip of Art Deco hotels and sidewalk cafes facing the oceanfront. He didn't even like the mansion's security videocameras to be recording. In the Versace household, everybody had regular routines that would be easy for a killer to know. One of those routines was Versace's morning walk to the News Cafe, four blocks from his home, to buy magazines and a coffee...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE This expansion was electrically powered. As the decade began, about half of all factories were electric, the rest mostly using steam. But by decade's end, more than 80% were on electricity. Household earnings rose; unemployment averaged 4.7%. Car ownership grew from 8 million to 24 million. In 1928 Herbert Hoover declared, "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." Oops...
...little more for his twice-monthly speech therapy. But the Eshelmans' world may be on the brink of collapse because of new federal rules that could take away Jonathan's $74-a-week disability check. "It's frightening," says Eshelman, who is worried that with her two-person household's income cut almost a third, she won't be able to meet her house payments, and she and her son will end up homeless. "I really don't know what we would...
What will happen to those who lose SSI? Many will have to give up treatments ranging from speech training to medicine. Others may end up homeless, since SSI families are poor and the check is a large percentage of household income. And some families may be torn apart. Organizations like the Arc, formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens, say they have been inundated with calls from parents afraid they will have to give up their children to foster care or institutionalization. "People tell us this is what's holding their family together," says Arc spokesman Marty Ford. "If you pull...
...number of smokers declines in the U.S., however, look for a market-share duel to the death. When cigarette advertising on TV and radio was barred in the early 1970s, RJR's Winston was the household name in cigarettes. Philip Morris adapted better to print, though, and boosted its Marlboro brand to prominence. RJR needs to regain some ground, but it won't be easy. "We'll all be jockeying for position in Playboy and Penthouse," an RJR insider quips. Adult magazines are among the few places the tobacco companies would continue to advertise...