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...negative light. But the possibilities present themselves so often, it gets hard to avoid capturing some of life's little ironies. Right before Christmas, for example, the President stopped at his mother-in-law's home in Phoenix while on route to Palm Springs. The nation's ninth largest city has no public or private emergency shelters for its estimated 3300 to 6200 homeless people. In July, the city passed an ordinance making it a crime to sleep or lie down on public property; shortly before Reagan arrived, the rule was used to evict 30 homeless people from under...
Reserve's investments now total some $3 billion, making the fund the 20th largest of its type in the U.S. And while Brown, 56, and Bent, 45, will not say how much money their idea has brought them, the sum would obviously buy a lot of hot dogs. The two are sole general partners of the company that manages the fund's assets, and the company was paid $13.1 million during fiscal 1982 for running the money. Brown and Bent say that they have plowed much of the income back into the business over the years, investing some...
...Cody. The appointment firmly establishes Bernardin, at 54, as a leader of the U.S. hierarchy, which is becoming more outspoken on social, if not doctrinal, issues. To some Vatican observers, the Pope's honoring of Bernardin so soon after he was named head of the nation's largest archdiocese was also a sign that John Paul approved of the criticism of U.S. nuclear arms policy by a panel led by Bernardin; the panel's draft of a pastoral letter is scheduled for final approval by the U.S. bishops' conference...
...newspaper war in Detroit may be the nation's hardest fought, and it is almost certainly the costliest. Detroit is the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers...
...major factors have made the operation of an opera house much more complicated than it once was. One is the jet plane, which enables singers to move about the world rapidly. The second is the change in the recording market. It used to be that the largest number of classical records was sold in the U.S., so that every singer wanted to develop an American audience. Now the major record market is overseas. In the Bing era, casting was done a year or two before the season. Now we have to negotiate as much as five years ahead...