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...more powerful than the council. He writes regulations and controls public works, public safety and city financing. Healy has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of city politics for 18 years, but he has fallen out of favor with several city councillors because of his lack of action to secure low-cost housing for city residents. Triantafillou was one of his most outspoken critics, but newcomer Braude is also in favor of putting more power in the hands of the council and so the election is not likely to influence the factions...
...future. The year that ended in June was Arista's best ever--$425 million in sales and 69 gold or platinum disks by artists from diva Whitney Houston to country star Alan Jackson. Davis has shown a few sharp moves on the business side too, making use of low-cost joint ventures to manage the financial risks, which allows him to take the musical risks needed to develop and sustain new talent...
...drive often become housebound and depressed. Last year, when Persis Thompkins, 80, of West Palm Beach, Fla., had a fender bender, she was terrified that she might lose her license. "I would have had to move into an independent-living facility," she said. Some communities offer low-cost vans and private-car services. But city buses and taxis are often all there is. Losing a license is like a death sentence to most people. That's why the adult children of elderly drivers will usually not intervene--even when Mom or Dad is a road menace. Members of one Detroit...
Even Joe began his public-service career in the semiprivate sector, though he did it as a kind of springboard to his political career. Twenty years ago, he started Citizens Energy, a nonprofit corporation that provides low-cost heating fuel to the poor. When he was first elected to Congress in 1986, he complained bitterly and in public about how much it frustrated him to be a powerless freshman after running his socially beneficial fuel operation. After leaving the House, he returned to his job there, having absorbed the lesson that a well-run nonprofit corporation--Citizens Energy...
...avoided digital cameras, which bypass film and shoot directly to disc, because the sub-$500 models are sub-snuff in the quality department. That left low-cost scanners (which convert paper photos to digital bits) and Picture CD, a new photo-to-digits service from Kodak and Intel that's being introduced this month...