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...fact, officers say interacting with students occupies a small portion of their duties. As the sworn police force for Cambridge's largest landlord--with jurisdiction ranging from the Radcliffe Quad to the Medical School's Boston campus--the Harvard force is expected to maintain the peace on all University property...
Stephen Yelity, 39, was an accounting manager for Johnson & Johnson, when he decided to start his own computer software firm six years ago. Accurate Information Systems (1988 sales: $10.5 million), based in South Plainfield, N.J., is now the 65th largest black-owned firm in the U.S., according to Black Enterprise magazine...
Like Yelity, a growing number of black executives are leaving large corporations to set up their own companies. During 1988, Black Enterprise reports, sales of the 100 largest black-owned firms grew 10.2%, compared with 7.6% sales growth for FORTUNE 500 firms. Largest by far: TLC Beatrice International Holdings (1988 revenues: $1.96 billion), a multinational food- processing concern acquired by Reginald Lewis in a $985 million leveraged buyout two years...
Louis Auchincloss, discreet attorney to the well-to-do and subtle novelist of their mores, proposes that the period between 1880 and 1910 could be called the Vanderbilt Era, after its largest and wealthiest clan. In these portraits in miniature of family members -- plus outriders like Richard Morris Hunt, who designed their grandiose homes -- Auchincloss writes with the relaxed intimacy of a frequent houseguest. (In fact, his wife Adele is a Vanderbilt descendant...
Before deregulation, the five largest U.S. carriers controlled 63% of the passenger business. While many supporters of the 1978 legislation hoped it would reduce the concentration of market share among the top carriers, the opposite has happened. Today the five largest airlines -- American, United, Delta, Northwest and Continental -- control 70% of the industry traffic...