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Wall Street shares that wary view. "Many housing stocks have not looked good from a growth and investment standpoint," says Dean Witter Analyst Alan Wapnick. "They've really gotten hammered." For example, the share price of U.S. Home, the largest American homebuilder, is down more than 60% from its 52-week high of 20¾ last May. An important reason for the decline, says Wapnick, is the prospect of higher interest rates...
...years the firm has grown from a garage in Palo Alto, Calif., to a giant whose $4.7 billion in sales embraces a wide range of high-technology products, which include minicomputers and electronic test and measuring instruments. Hewlett-Packard now ranks 75th on the FORTUNE list of the largest U.S. industrial companies, and its pocket calculators have made HP household initials among scientists and engineers...
Brown's company, C.C. Pollen, is the largest seller of the substance in the U.S. Brown sneers at conventional candy bars, describing them as "semipoison," and points to Reagan's vigor at 73 as evidence of bee pollen's healthful effects. "Just look at him," says Brown of the President. "This is one of the few bars you can eat that will improve your health...
...critics, the Tribune is the Baby Huey of American newspapers-big, awkward, musclebound, stumbling over its own vast strength. Consistently profitable and increasingly dominant in the nation's third largest city, the paper employs 530 full-time editorial staffers, including 16 correspondents in Washington, eight in other U.S. cities outside Illinois, and four abroad. Yet for a paper of its visibility, the Trib has too little impact outside its region. The staff shares the industry's enthusiasm for blockbuster features, which tend to be deftly written and slickly packaged rather than penetrating. Says Journalism Director Neale Copple...
When Texas talks, textbook publishers tend to listen. As one of the largest purchasers of school textbooks ($65 million this year), the state has regularly exerted a strong influence on the content of books used by schools across the country. After the Texas board of education accommodated Fundamentalist Christians in 1974 by requiring that evolution be taught as "only one of several explanations" of the origins of mankind, some publishers began to alter their texts to make them more widely acceptable. For instance, in the 1981 high school biology book published by Laidlaw Bros., a division of Doubleday, the word...