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Because of their fears, millions of Americans are arming themselves. "We're getting a lot of nice upper-class couples who are buying pistols," says James Bell Jr., vice president of Bell's Gun and Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...
Guard dogs are also popular, both at home and at work. German shepherds or Doberman pinschers can be turned loose at night in a store, or leashed, can patrol with a trainer. "Since the beginning of the year, business has been unreal," says Chuck Stewart, who manages Continental Canines Inc. in Los Angeles. "We've got dogs at doctors' offices, waterbed stores, landscapers, dress manufacturers and cemeteries...
...barrel chest and an Afro that leaps from his temples as if galvanized, he works at a pace that would exhaust most men. His 18-hour days and hundreds of phone calls a week have helped him outflank such established matchmakers as Madison Square Garden and Top Rank, Inc., a longtime promoter and closed-circuit telecaster of Ali fights. Of course he has not been hurt by the cooperation of Ali and his manager, Black Muslim Executive Herbert Muhammad, who are happy to break old traditions and deal with a black promoter...
Unhealthy Debt. The change could not come too soon for many U.S. companies that have become overburdened with debt. A typical example is Baker Oil Tools, Inc., a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of oil-drilling equipment, whose debt last year rose to an unhealthily high 70% of the firm's entire capital. By selling $24 million in stock in April, Baker reduced its debt-to-equity ratio to a more comfortable fifty-fifty. So far, energy-related companies have been most successful in selling new stock. Buyers, however, remain cautious and highly selective. Two weeks ago, when an underwriting...
After three postwar decades of headlong tourist development, a number of states from Oregon to Maine have reappraised the actual near-and long-term value of tourism in ecological, social and economic terms. Using a kind of restaurant-rating system in reverse, the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little Inc., for example, conducted a study for the state of Maine. The study rated the social and environmental impact of various types of tourists by measuring them on a scale of minus one (for least damaging) to minus five for each of a dozen criteria, and comparing the total with...